Building software product lines (SPLs) with features is a challenging task. Many SPL
implementations support features with coarse granularity-eg, the ability to add and wrap …

A software modification task often addresses several concerns. A concern is anything a
stakeholder may want to consider as a conceptual unit, including features, nonfunctional …

Code clones are generally considered harmful in software development, and the
predominant approach is to try to eliminate them through refactoring. However, recent …

Bedingte Kompilierung ist ein einfaches und häufig benutztes Mittel zur Implementierung
von Variabilität in Softwareproduktlinien, welches aber aufgrund negativer Auswirkungen …

In spite of the more advanced modularisation mechanisms, aspect-oriented programs still
suffer from evolution problems. Due to the fragile pointcut problem, seemingly safe …

Aspect mining is a reverse engineering process that aims at finding crosscutting concerns in
existing systems. This article proposes an aspect mining approach based on determining …

Source code duplication, commonly known as code cloning, is considered an obstacle to
software maintenance because changes to a cloned region often require consistent …

Dependencies between program elements need to be modeled from different perspectives
reflecting architectural, design, and implementation level decisions. To avoid erosion of the …

We introduce ConcernMapper, an Eclipse plug-in for experimenting with techniques for
advanced separation of concerns. ConcernMapper supports development and maintenance …

Software evolution process does not end at the death of an individual software system but
usually continues its evolution over generations through being replaced by newly built …