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The extractive adoption of Software Product Lines (SPL) relies on the reuse of the already developed systems, employing a reengineering process. However, due to the diversity of options found in the daily practice of SPL development, rigorous planning ...

Search-based algorithms have been successfully applied in the Product Line Architecture (PLA) optimization using the seminal approach called Multi-Objective Approach for Product-Line Architecture Design (MOA4PLA). This approach produces a set of ...

Component-based software product line (SPL) consists of a set of software products that share common components. For a proper SPL product composition, each component has to follow three principles: encapsulating a single feature, restricting data ...

The importance of experimentation for Software Engineering research has been notably established in the last years. The software engineering community has discussed how to proper report and evaluate experiments using different approaches, such as ...

Adaptive Systems (ASs) are able to monitor their own behavior and adapt it when quality goals are not accomplished. MAPE-K is a reference model that provides abstractions to design ASs. Structuring such systems with these abstractions brings many ...

The benefits provided by microservices architecture in some application scenarios are a motivating factor for organizations to migrate their monoliths to this architecture. Extracting microservices from existing monolithic code bases presents a key ...

Microservice architecture has gained much attention in the last few years in both industry and academia. Microservice is an architectural style that enables developing systems as a suite of small loosely coupled, and autonomous (micro)services that ...

The current world scenario is heading to contactless technologies, where robots are in the center. These systems usually benefit from Internet of Things (IoT) sensing, being named Internet of Robotics Things (IoRT) systems. Developing IoRT software ...

Information Flow Control (IFC) tools are a common way to analyze source code with the goal to find confidentiality or integrity violations for sensitive information. Therefore, to correctly protect such information (e.g., passwords), it is important to ...

In open-source software projects, it is common for external collaborators to send contributions through pull requests, with bug fixes, new features and/or any type of modification in software artifacts. These contributions are evaluated by the core ...

Gamification has been adopted in software development tasks in recent years. This adoption seeks, for example, to improve the engagement of developers while creating UML models or writing code. Empirical studies report that UML models suffer from ...