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@inproceedings {KroeherSchmid17,
author={Christian Kröher and Klaus Schmid},
title={Towards a Better Understanding of Software Product Line Evolution},
publisher={ - Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Fachgruppe PARS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th Workshop Software-Reengineering and Evolution (WSRE '17) in Softwaretechnik-Trends},
number={2},
volume={37},
year={2017},
pages={40-41},
abstract={In contrast to traditional software systems, the evolution of a Software Product Line (SPL) affects not only artifacts like source code or requirements, but also variability information, which supports the customization of these artifacts across different products of the SPL. While some work exists that aims at characterizing the state and evolution of a product line from a feature perspective, this abstracts away the details of code evolution, hence, ignoring aspects like the difference in size of features. In this paper, we present an approach for the extraction and analysis of changes introduced to code, build and variability model artifacts. This approach has been developed for and applied to the Linux product line.}
}
