@inproceedings{c1ad05eb03e7461dbb83120dd6041bac,
title = "Coevolution of variability models and related artifacts: A case study from the Linux kernel",
abstract = "Variability-aware systems are subject to the coevolution of variability models and related artifacts. Surprisingly, little knowledge exists to understand such coevolution in practice. This shortage is directly reflected in existing approaches and tools for variability management, as they fail to provide effective support for such a coevolution. To understand how variability models and related artifacts coevolve in a large and complex real-world variability-aware system, we inspect over 500 Linux kernel commits spanning almost four years of development. We collect a catalog of evolution patterns, capturing the coevolution of the Linux kernel variability model, Makefiles, and C source code. Further, we extract general findings to guide further research and tool development.",
keywords = "Linux, catalog, evolution, patterns, variability",
author = "Leonardo Passos and Jianmei Guo and Leopoldo Teixeira and Krzysztof Czarnecki and Andrzej W{\c a}sowski and Paulo Borba",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1145/2491627.2491628",
language = "英语",
isbn = "9781450319683",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
pages = "91--100",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th International Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2013",
note = "17th International Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2013 ; Conference date: 26-08-2013 Through 30-08-2013",
}