A software product line (SPL) represents a family of related systems that share commonalities and variabilities to address the needs of a specific market or mission. The adoption of SPL has been applied in several areas ...

As any other software system, frameworks and libraries evolve over time, and so their APIs. Consequently, client systems should be updated to benefit from improved APIs. To facilitate this task and preserve backward ...

The maintenance and evolution of software systems can bring several code changes that can potentially reduce their quality and increase their complexity. One critical quality attribute that be affected over time is the ...