Coping with evolution in automated production systems implies a cross-disciplinary
challenge along the system's life-cycle for variant-rich systems of high complexity. The …

Early experiments with software diversity in the mid 1970s investigated N-version
programming and recovery blocks to increase the reliability of embedded systems. Four …

This Open Access book presents the results of the" Collaborative Embedded
Systems"(CrESt) project, aimed at adapting and complementing the methodology underlying …

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 …

Fuzzing is a software testing technique that quickly and automatically explores the input
space of a program without knowing its internals. Therefore, developers commonly use …

Software product lines (SPLs) and software ecosystems (SECOs) represent families of
closely related software systems in terms of configurable variable assets. Delta modeling is …

Software engineering faces the challenge of developing and maintaining systems that are
highly variable in space (concurrent variations of the system at a single point in time) and …

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 …

Delta-oriented programming (DOP) is a modular, yet flexible approach to implement
software product lines. In DOP, a product line is implemented by a set of deltas, which are …

Context In industrial settings products are developed by more than one organization.
Software vendors and suppliers commonly typically maintain their own product lines, which …