Software product line engineering has proven to empower organizations to develop a
diversity of similar software-intensive systems (applications) at lower cost, in shorter time …

Abstract Context: Software Product Lines (SPL) evolve when there are changes in the
requirements, product structure or the technology being used. Different approaches have …

The idea for this book arose from a series of lectures on modern programming paradigms,
feature-oriented programming, and software product lines that are continuously held at the …

The evolution of variant-rich systems is a challenging task. To support developers, the
research community has proposed a range of different techniques over the last decades …

Context: Software product line engineering has proven to be an efficient paradigm to
developing families of similar software systems at lower costs, in shorter time, and with …

Features are commonly used to describe functional and nonfunctional aspects of software.
To effectively evolve and reuse features, their location in software assets has to be known …

To safely evolve a software product line, it is important to have a notion of product line
refinement that assures behavior preservation of the original product line products. So in this …

In this paper, we develop a vision of software evolution based on a feature-oriented
perspective. From the fact that features provide a common ground to all stakeholders, we …

Variant-rich software systems offer a large degree of customization, allowing users to
configure the target system according to their preferences and needs. Facing high degrees …

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 …