Safety and security are important properties of any software system, particularly in safety-
critical domains, such as embedded, automotive, or cyber-physical systems. Moreover …

Context. Microservice architectures are an emergent service-oriented paradigm widely used
in industry to develop and deploy scalable software systems. The underlying idea is to …

Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs) are complex systems comprised of software
and hardware interacting with each other and the environment. In industry, over time, a …

Software companies commonly develop and maintain variants of systems, with different
feature combinations for different customers. Thus, they must cope with variability in space …

Tracing requirements to their implementation is crucial to all stakeholders of a software
development process. When managing software variability, requirements are typically …

Software is often released in multiple variants to meet all customer requirements. While
software product lines address this need by advocating the development of an integrated …

Software often needs to exist in different variants, which account for varying customer
requirements, environments, or non-functional aspects, such as energy consumption …

Background: Taxonomies are crucial for the development of a research field, as they play a
major role in structuring a complex body of knowledge and help to classify processes …

With the increasing demand for customized systems and rapidly evolving technology,
software engineering faces many challenges. A particular challenge is the development and …

Intentions are fundamental in software engineering, but they are typically only implicitly
considered through different abstractions, such as requirements, use cases, features, or …