Model-based languages such as MATLAB/Simulink are crucial for the development of embedded software systems. To adapt to changing requirements, engineers commonly copy and modify existing systems to create new variants. Denoted clone-and-own, this straightforward reuse strategy entails severe maintenance and consistency ...

This abstract summarizes our paper with the homonymous title published at the Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2019.

Cloning is a simple way to create new variants of a system. While cheap at first, it increases maintenance cost in the long term. Eventually, the cloned variants need to be integrated into a configurable platform. Such an integration is challenging: it involves merging the usual code improvements between the variants, ...

We present our paper originally published in the proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems 2020 (MODELS). Owing to the ever-growing need for customization, software systems often exist in many different variants. To avoid the need to maintain many different ...

We report about recent research on edit classification in configurable software, originally published at the 30th Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2022 [Bi22]. For highly configurable software systems, such as the Linux kernel, maintaining ...

We report about a recent empirical study on variant synchronization in clone-and-own, originally published at the 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) 2022 [Sc22]. In clone-and-own, a new variant of a software system is created by copying and adapting an existing one. While it ...

We report about recent research on satisfiability solving for variational domains, originally published in 2022 in the Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE) within the special issue on configurable systems[ Yo22]. Incremental SAT solving is an extension of classic SAT solving that enables solving a set of related ...

In this work, we report about recent research on n-way model matching, originally published at the International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS) 2021. Model matching algorithms are used to identify common elements in input models, which is a fundamental precondition for many software ...

In this work, we report about recent research on Feature Trace Recording, originally published at the Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2021. Tracing requirements to their implementation is crucial to all stakeholders of a software development ...

This extended abstract summarizes our paper with the same title published at the main track of the International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE) 2021.