Efficient implementation of a BDD package
DAC '90 Proceedings of the 27th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Managing variability in software architectures
SSR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 symposium on Software reusability: putting software reuse in context
Software product lines: practices and patterns
Software product lines: practices and patterns
A taxonomy of variability realization techniques: Research Articles
Software—Practice & Experience
Verifying feature-based model templates against well-formedness OCL constraints
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
Generic semantics of feature diagrams
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Feature Diagrams and Logics: There and Back Again
SPLC '07 Proceedings of the 11th International Software Product Line Conference
An Exploratory Study of Information Retrieval Techniques in Domain Analysis
SPLC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International Software Product Line Conference
Reasoning about edits to feature models
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Reconfigurable SCA Applications with the FraSCAti Platform
SCC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
Automated analysis of feature models 20 years later: A literature review
Information Systems
Feature-based composition of software architectures
ECSA'10 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Software architecture
On the need of safe software product line architectures
ECSA'10 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Software architecture
A domain-specific language for managing feature models
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Reverse engineering feature models
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Comparing approaches to implement feature model composition
ECMFA'10 Proceedings of the 6th European conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
Detecting inconsistencies in multi-view models with variability
ECMFA'10 Proceedings of the 6th European conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
A reflective platform for highly adaptive multi-cloud systems
Adaptive and Reflective Middleware on Proceedings of the International Workshop
On extracting feature models from product descriptions
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
Separation of concerns in feature modeling: support and applications
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Aspect-oriented Software Development
Decomposing feature models: language, environment, and applications
ASE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
CAiSE'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Extractive SPL adoption using multi-level variability modeling
Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 2
Using feature model to build model transformation chains
MODELS'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Reverse engineering feature models with evolutionary algorithms: an exploratory study
SSBSE'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Search Based Software Engineering
Support for reverse engineering and maintaining feature models
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
FAMILIAR: A domain-specific language for large scale management of feature models
Science of Computer Programming
Improving product copy consolidation by architecture-aware difference analysis
Proceedings of the 9th international ACM Sigsoft conference on Quality of software architectures
Towards automated testing and fixing of re-engineered feature models
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Run-time adaptation of mobile applications using genetic algorithms
Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
The anatomy of a sales configurator: an empirical study of 111 cases
CAiSE'13 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Towards system analysis with variability model metrics
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems
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Reverse engineering the variability of an existing system is a challenging activity. The architect knowledge is essential to identify variation points and explicit constraints between features, for instance in feature models (FMs), but the manual creation of FMs is both time-consuming and error-prone. On a large scale, it is very difficult for an architect to guarantee that the resulting FM is consistent with the architecture it is associated with. In this paper, we present a comprehensive, tool supported process for reverse engineering architectural FMs. We develop automated techniques to extract and combine different variability descriptions of an architecture. Then, alignment and reasoning techniques are applied to integrate the architect knowledge and reinforce the extracted FM. We illustrate the process when applied to a representative software system and we report on our experience in this context.