Software traceability is a sought-after, yet often elusive quality in software-intensive systems.
Required in safety-critical systems by many certifying bodies, such as the USA Federal …

Abstract Context: Variant-Rich Systems (VRSs), such as Software Product Lines or variants
created through clone & own, aim at reusing existing assets. The long lifespan of families of …

CONTEXT: Model-Driven Engineering provides a new landscape for dealing with
traceability in software development. OBJECTIVE: Our goal is to analyze the current state of …

Abstract Model-Based Software Engineering provides various modelling formalisms for
capturing the structural, behavioral, configuration, and intentional aspects of software …

Program comprehension usually focuses on the significance of textual information to capture
the programmers' intent and knowledge in the software, in particular the source code. In the …

Software Product Lines (SPLs) are a successful approach to software reuse in the large.
Even though tools exist to create SPLs, their evolution is widely unexplored. Evolving an …

Traceability provides support for diverse software engineering activities including safety
analysis, compliance verification, test-case selection, and impact prediction. However, in …

Abstract Context: Traceability in Software Product Lines (SPL) is the ability to interrelate
software engineering artifacts through required links to answer specific questions related to …

Software product lines (SPLs) are families of related systems whose members are
distinguished by the set of features they provide. Over 2 decades of research and practice …

Recent advances in high‐throughput experimental techniques have led to an exponential
increase in both the size and the complexity of the data sets commonly studied in biology …