Recent twin decisions of the European Patent Office's Technical Board of Appeal have shifted its stance on software patents significantly. In this paper, I explore the backgr...
A Software Product Line (SPL) is a family of programs. Testing an SPL is a challenge because the number of programs to examine may be exponential in the number of features. Howeve...
Chang Hwan Peter Kim, Don S. Batory, Sarfraz Khurs...
Today's Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) only integrate the tools and knowledge of a single user and workstation. This neglects the fact that the way in which we de...
Marcel Bruch, Eric Bodden, Martin Monperrus, Mira ...
Recent research results have shown more benefits of the management of code clones, rather than detecting and removing them. However, existing clone management approaches are stil...
Tung Thanh Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Nam H. Pham, J...
In the lifecycle of a software product line (SPL), incremental generalization is usually required to extend the variability of existing core assets to support the new or changed ap...