Context: In this study we report on a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) for Domain-Specific
Languages (DSLs), based on an automatic search including primary studies from journals …

Abstract CONTEXT. Software Product Lines (SPLs) aim to support the development of a
whole family of software products through systematic reuse of shared assets. As SPLs …

Systematic literature studies have become standard practice in software engineering to
synthesize evidence in different areas of the discipline. As more such studies are published …

The growing interest in Agile and Lean software development is reflected in the increasing
number of secondary studies on the benefits and limitations of Agile and Lean processes …

A common type of study used by researchers to map out the landscape of a research topic is
known as mapping study. Such a study typically begins with an exploratory search on the …

Measuring the internal quality of source code is one of the traditional goals of making
software development into an engineering discipline. Cyclomatic complexity (CC) is an often …

Background: Software repositories provide large amount of data encompassing software
changes throughout its evolution. Those repositories can be effectively used to extract and …

This document describes the protocol for a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) for Domain-
Specific Languages (DSLs) and it is meant as an electronic supplement to the paper [17] …

Background: Systematic reviews have become an established methodology in software
engineering. However, they are labour intensive, error prone and time consuming. These …

Because of economical, technological and marketing reasons today's software systems are
more frequently being built as families where each product variant implements a different …