Experimentation in software engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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IEEE Software
Design and use of software architectures: adopting and evolving a product-line approach
Design and use of software architectures: adopting and evolving a product-line approach
Managing variability in software architectures
SSR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 symposium on Software reusability: putting software reuse in context
Model-Driven Product Line Architectures
SPLC 2 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Product Lines
Variation Management for Software Production Lines
SPLC 2 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Product Lines
Variability Issues in Software Product Lines
PFE '01 Revised Papers from the 4th International Workshop on Software Product-Family Engineering
Writing good software engineering research papers: minitutorial
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Generating Product-Lines of Product-Families
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
Evidence-Based Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Evidence-Based Software Engineering for Practitioners
IEEE Software
A customizable approach to full lifecycle variability management
Science of Computer Programming - Special issue: Software variability management
A taxonomy of variability realization techniques: Research Articles
Software—Practice & Experience
On the success of empirical studies in the international conference on software engineering
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Testing and inspecting reusable product line components: first empirical results
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
Kumbang: A domain ontology for modelling variability in software product families
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Classifying variability modeling techniques
Information and Software Technology
The Future of Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Information and Software Technology
Strength of evidence in systematic reviews in software engineering
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
A systematic review of quasi-experiments in software engineering
Information and Software Technology
SPLC'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software product lines: going beyond
The notion of variability in software architecture: results from a preliminary exploratory study
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
A systematic review of evaluation of variability management approaches in software product lines
Information and Software Technology
A systematic review of research on open source software in commercial software product development
Information and Software Technology
Six years of systematic literature reviews in software engineering: An updated tertiary study
Information and Software Technology
A reuse-oriented product-line method for enterprise web applications
ICWE'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Current Trends in Web Engineering
A systematic review of research on open source software in commercial software product development
EASE'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Towards an evidence-based understanding of electronic data sources
EASE'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Information and Software Technology
Variability in quality attributes of service-based software systems: A systematic literature review
Information and Software Technology
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OBJECTIVE - The objective of this study is to review the status of evaluation of Variability Management (VM) approaches in Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE). METHOD - We have carried out a systematic review of studies of VM in SPLE reported in any publication venue and published before September 2007. RESULTS - 97 papers were selected according to our inclusion and exclusion criteria. The selected papers appeared in 56 publication venues and the dominance of well-known publication venues of SPLE is not very clear. Only a small portion of the identified approaches were evaluated using rigorous scientific methods. A detailed investigation of the studies employing empirical research methods revealed significant quality deficiencies in various quality assessment aspects. Even more disappointing finding is that the trends of scientific evaluation of VM approaches do not appear to be improving based on the analysis of the data extracted from the reviewed studied. CONCLUSIONS - The status of evaluation of VM approaches in SPLE is poor. Most of the approaches proposed are amenable to empirical evaluation, but the available evidence is sparse and the quality of the presented evidence is very low. The findings highlight the areas of improvement for rigorous evaluation of VM approaches.