Handling large-scale software variability is still a challenge for many organizations. After
decades of research on variability management concepts, many industrial organizations …

Abstract Software Product Lines (SPLs) are families of systems that share common assets
allowing a disciplined reuse. Rarely SPLs start from scratch, instead they usually start from a …

Context The integration of feature models has been widely investigated in the last decades,
given its pivotal role for supporting the evolution of software product lines. Unfortunately …

Feature models have been used since the 90s to describe software product lines as a way of
reusing common parts in a family of software systems. In 2010, a systematic literature review …

Developers commonly use features to define, manage, and communicate functionalities of a
system. Unfortunately, the locations of features in code and other characteristics (feature …

Feature code is often scattered across a software system. Scattering is not necessarily bad if
used with care, as witnessed by systems with highly scattered features that evolved …

The notion of features is commonly used to describe, structure, and communicate the
functionalities of a system. Unfortunately, features and their locations in software artifacts are …

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 …

Locating features is one of the most common software development activities. It is typically
done during maintenance and evolution, when developers need to identify the exact places …

Features are high-level, domain-specific abstractions over implementation artifacts.
Developers use them to communicate and reason about a system, in order to maintain and …