We study the evolution of a model describing features and configurations in a large product line—the Linux kernel variability model. We analyze this evolution ...

▫ The evolution of the Linux kernel variability model from. 2.6.12 to 2.6.32. ▫ How does it grow? ▫ What changes? ▫ How? ▫ Reasons for edits? ▫ Real ...

We study the evolution of a model describing features and configurations in a large product line—the Linux kernel variability model. We analyze this evolution ...

The primary finding is that the Linux kernel model appears to evolve surprisingly smoothly, in the analyzed period, the number of features had doubled, ...

This paper presents a novel method to study Linux kernel evolution using complex networks. Having investigated the node degree distribution and average path ...

Evolution of the Linux Kernel Variability Model ; Lecture Notes in Computer Science : Proceedings of The International Software Product Lines Conference (SPLC).

We present a qualitative study of 40 variability bugs collected from bug-fixing commits to the Linux kernel repository. We investigate each of the 40 bugs, ...

A variability model is extracted from the code base of the Linux kernel, obtaining a model larger by an order of magnitude than the largest publicly available ...

... Evolution of the Linux kernel variability model. In: Proceedings of the international conference on software product lines: going beyond. Springer, pp 136 ...

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