CONTEXT: Reusing software by means of copy and paste is a frequent activity in software
development. The duplicated code is known as a software clone and the activity is known as …

A software product line (SPL) is an advanced concept to manage a family of programs under
one umbrella. As with stand-alone programs, maintenance is an important challenge within …

Highly-configurable software systems (also called software product lines) gain momentum in
both, academia and industry. For instance, the Linux kernel comes with over 12 000 …

Software-intensive systems have been growing in both size and complexity. Consequently,
developers need better support for measuring and controlling the software quality. In this …

Code smells are symptoms that something is wrong in the source code. They have been
catalogued and investigated in several programming techniques. These techniques can be …

The features of a software product line-a portfolio of system variants-can be realized using
various implementation techniques (aka, variability mechanisms). Each technique …

Today, many scientific data sets are open to the public. For their operators, it is important to
know what the users are interested in. In this paper, we study the problem of extracting and …

A software product line (SPL) is a set of systems that share common and varying features. To
provide large-scale reuse, the components of a SPL should be easy to maintain. Therefore …

Feature-oriented programming (FOP) is a programming technique to implement software
product lines based on composition mechanisms called refinements. A software product line …

Software metrics provide basic means to quantify quality of software systems. However, the
effectiveness of the measurement process is directly dependent on the definition of reliable …