Publications

@inproceedings{wardah2020elasticsearch,

title = {Causes of Merge Conflicts: A Case Study of ElasticSearch},

author = {Wardah Mahmood and Moses Chagama and Thorsten Berger and Regina Hebig},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2020-vamos-mergeconflicts.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {14th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{damir2020germanse,

title = {Principles of Feature Modeling},

author = {Damir Nesic and Jacob Krueger and Stefan Stanciulescu and Thorsten Berger},

url = {https://se.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-fse-fm_principles.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {Software Engineering (SE)},

note = {Extended Abstract of our FSE'19 (main track) paper, see below.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{jacob2020germanse,

title = {Effects of Explicit Feature Traceability on Program Comprehension},

author = {Jacob Krueger and Gul Calikli and Thorsten Berger and Thomas Leich and Gunter Saake},

url = {https://se.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-fse-feature-traceability.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {Software Engineering (SE)},

note = {Extended Abstract of our FSE'19 (main track) paper, see below.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{leonardo2020germanse,

title = {A Study of Feature Scattering in the Linux Kernel},

author = {Leonardo Passos and Rodrigo Queiroz and Mukelabai Mukelabai and Thorsten Berger and Sven Apel and Krzysztof Czarnecki and Jesus Padilla},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {Software Engineering (SE)},

note = {Extended Abstract of our TSE'18 journal article, see below.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{max2020germanse,

title = {Intention-Based Integration of Software Variants},

author = {Max Lillack and Stefan Stanciulescu and Wilhelm Hedman and Thorsten Berger and Andrzej Wasowski},

url = {https://se.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-icse-incline.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {Software Engineering (SE)},

note = {Extended Abstract of our ICSE'19 (main track) paper, see below.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{damir2019principles,

title = {Principles of Feature Modeling},

author = {Damir Nesic and Jacob Krueger and Stefan Stanciulescu and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-fse-fm_principles.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {27th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{lillack2019incline,

title = {Intention-Based Integration of Software Variants},

author = {Max Lillack and Stefan Stanciulescu and Wilhelm Hedman and Thorsten Berger and Andrzej Wasowski},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-icse-incline.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{krueger2019traceability,

title = {Effects of Explicit Feature Traceability on Program Comprehension},

author = {Jacob Krueger and Gul Calikli and Thorsten Berger and Thomas Leich and Gunter Saake},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-fse-feature-traceability.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {27th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{strueber2019benchmark,

title = {Facing the Truth: Benchmarking the Techniques for the Evolution of Variant-Rich Systems},

author = {Daniel Strueber and Mukelabai Mukelabai and Jacob Krueger and Stefan Fischer and Lukas Linsbauer and Jabier Martinez and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-splc-benchmark.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{garcia2019sle,

title = {High-Level Mission Specification for Multiple Robots},

author = {Sergio Garcia and Patrizio Pelliccione and Claudio Menghi and Thorsten Berger and Tomas Bures},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-sle-promise.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {12th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{menghi2019psalmdemo,

title = {PsALM: Specification of Dependable Robotic Missions},

author = {Claudio Menghi and Christos Tsigkanos and Thorsten Berger and Patrizio Pelliccione},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-icse-psalm.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Demonstrations Track},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{garcia2019robotics,

title = {Variability Modeling of Service Robots: Experiences and Challenges},

author = {Sergio Garcia and Daniel Strueber and Davide Brugali and Alessandro Di Fava and Philipp Schillinger and Patrizio Pelliccione and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-vamos-robotics.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {13th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{queiroz2019geoscenario,

title = {Geoscenario: An Open DSL for Autonomous Driving Scenario Representation},

author = {Rodrigo Queiroz and Thorsten Berger and Krzysztof Czarnecki},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-iv-geoscenario.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {30th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{entekhabi2019featuredashboard,

title = {Visualization of Feature Locations with the Tool FeatureDashboard},

author = {Sina Entekhabi and Anton Solback and Jan-Philipp Steghöfer and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-splc-featuredashboard.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC), Tools Track},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{akesson2019apogames,

title = {Migrating the Android Apo-Games into an Annotation-Based Software Product Line},

author = {Jonas Akesson and Sebastian Nilsson and Jacob Krüger and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-splc-apoandroid.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC), Challenge Track},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{debbiche2019apogames,

title = {Migrating the Java-Based Apo-Games into a Composition-Based Software Product Line},

author = {Jamel Debbiche and Oskar Lignell and Jacob Krüger and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-splc-apojava.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC), Challenge Track},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{berger2019scenarios,

title = {Usage Scenarios for a Common Feature Modeling Language},

author = {Thorsten Berger and Philippe Collet},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-modevar-fml-scenarios.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {First International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability (MODEVAR)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{berger2019dagstuhl,

title = {Software Evolution in Time and Space: Unifying Version and Variability Management (Dagstuhl seminar 19191)},

author = {Thorsten Berger and Marsha Chechik and Timo Kehrer and Manuel Wimmer},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2019-dagstuhl19191-preprint.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Dagstuhl Reports},

publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{mukelabai2019germanse,

title = {Tackling Combinatorial Explosion: A Study of Industrial Needs and Practices for Analyzing Highly Configurable Systems},

author = {Mukelabai Mukelabai and Damir Nesic and Salome Maro and Thorsten Berger and Jan-Philipp Steghöfer},

url = {https://se.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2018-ase-analysis.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Software Engineering (SE)},

note = {Extended Abstract of our ASE'18 (main track) paper.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{hebig2019germanse,

title = {Model Transformation Languages Under a Magnifying Glass -- A Controlled Experiment with Xtend, ATL, and QVT},

author = {Regina Hebig and Christoph Seidl and Thorsten Berger and John Kook Pedersen and Andrzej Wasowski},

url = {https://se.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2018-fse-m2m.pdf},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Software Engineering (SE)},

note = {Extended Abstract of our FSE'18 (main track) paper.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{sadovykh2019revamp,

title = {REVAMP2 Project: Towards Round-Trip Engineering of Software Product Lines -- Approach, Intermediate Results and Challenges},

author = {Andrey Sadovykh and Tewfik Ziadi and Jacques Robin and Elena Gallego and Jan-Philipp Steghoefer and Thorsten Berger and Alessandra Bagnato and Raul Mazo},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {TOOLS 50 + 1},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{mukelabai2018analysis,

title = {Tackling Combinatorial Explosion: A Study of Industrial Needs and Practices for Analyzing Highly Configurable Systems},

author = {Mukelabai Mukelabai and Damir Nesic and Salome Maro and Thorsten Berger and Jan-Philipp Steghöfer},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2018-ase-analysis.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{hebig2018modeltransformations,

title = {Model Transformation Languages Under a Magnifying Glass -- A Controlled Experiment with Xtend, ATL, and QVT},

author = {Regina Hebig and Christoph Seidl and Thorsten Berger and John Kook Pedersen and Andrzej Wasowski},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2018-fse-m2m.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {26th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{abukwaik2018traceability,

title = {Semi-Automated Feature Traceability with Embedded Annotations},

author = {Hadil Abukwaik and Andreas Burger and Berima Andam and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2018-icsme-recommender.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {34th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), NIER Track},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{businge2018appfamilies,

title = {Clone-Based Variability Management in the Android Ecosystem},

author = {John Businge and Openja Moses and Sarah Nadi and Engineer Bainomugisha and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2018-icsme-appfamilies.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {34th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Industry Track},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{menghi2018patternsposter,

title = {Property Specification Patterns for Robotic Missions},

author = {Claudio Menghi and Christos Tsigkanos and Thorsten Berger and Patrizio Pelliccione and Carlo Ghezzi},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2018-icse-poster-patterns.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Poster Track},

note = {Extended Abstract},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{garcia2018sera,

title = {An Architecture for Decentralized, Collaborative, and Autonomous Robots},

author = {Sergio Garcia and Patrizio Pelliccione and Claudio Menghi and Thorsten Berger and Rebekka Wohlrab},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2018-icsa-sera.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{mukelabai2018peopldemo,

title = {Multi-View Editing of Software Product Lines with PEoPL},

author = {Mukelabai Mukelabai and Benjamin Behringer and Moritz Fey and Jochen Palz and Jacob Krüger and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2018-icse_demo-peopl.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Demonstrations Track},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{krueger2018marlin,

title = {Towards a Better Understanding of Software Features and Their Characteristics: A Case Study of Marlin},

author = {Jacob Krueger and Wanzi Gu and Hui Shen and Mukelabai Mukelabai and Regina Hebig and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2018-vamos-marlin.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {Twelfth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{behringer2018germanse,

title = {PEoPL: Projectional Editing of Product Lines},

author = {Benjamin Behringer and Jochen Palz and Thorsten Berger},

url = {https://se.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2017-icse-peopl.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {Software Engineering (SE)},

note = {Extended Abstract of our ICSE'17 (main track) paper.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{berger2018germanse,

title = {Efficiency of Projectional Editing},

author = {Thorsten Berger and Thorsten Berger and Markus Voelter and Hans Peter Jensen and Taweesap Dangprasert and Janet Siegmund},

url = {https://se.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2016-fse-projectional.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {Software Engineering (SE)},

note = {Extended Abstract of our FSE'16 (main track) paper.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{linsbauer2017gpce,

title = {A Classification of Variation Control Systems},

author = {Lukas Linsbauer and Thorsten Berger and Paul Grünbacher},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2017-gpce-varcs.pdf},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {16th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (GPCE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{schauss2017sle,

title = {A Chrestomathy of DSL Implementations},

author = {Simon Schauss and Ralf Lämmel and Johannes Härtel and Marcel Heinz and Kevin Klein and Lukas Härtel and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2017-sle-metalib.pdf},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{behringer2017peopl,

title = {PEoPL: Projectional Editing of Product Lines},

author = {Benjamin Behringer and Jochen Palz and Thorsten Berger},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2017-icse-peopl.pdf},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{seidl2017opening,

title = {Challenges and Solutions for Opening Small and Medium-Scale Industrial Sofware Platforms},

author = {Christoph Seidl and Thorsten Berger and Christoph Elsner and Klaus-Benedikt Schultis},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2017-splc-ecosystems.pdf},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {21st International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{andam2017florida,

title = {FLOrIDA: Feature LOcatIon DAshboard for Extracting and Visualizing Feature Traces},

author = {Berima Andam and Andreas Burger and Thorsten Berger and Michel Chaudron},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2017-vamos-featuredashboard.pdf},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Eleventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{berger2016pe,

title = {Efficiency of Projectional Editing: A Controlled Experiment},

author = {Thorsten Berger and Markus Völter and Hans Peter Jensen and Taweesap Dangprasert and Janet Siegmund},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2016-fse-projectional.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

urldate = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{queiroz2016prediction,

title = {Towards Predicting Feature Defects in Software Product Lines},

author = {Rodrigo Queiroz and Thorsten Berger and Krzysztof Czarnecki},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2016-fosd-featuredefects.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

urldate = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {Seventh International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{voelter2016grammarcells,

title = {Efficient Development of Consistent Projectional Editors using Grammar Cells},

author = {Markus Völter and Tamás Szabó and Sascha Lisson and Bernd Kolb and Sebastian Erdweg and Thorsten Berger},

url = {http://voelter.de/data/pub/SLE2016-GrammarCells.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {9th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{stanciulescu2016vcs,

title = {Concepts, Operations, and Feasibility of a Projection-Based Variation Control System},

author = {Stefan Stanciulescu and Thorsten Berger and Eric Walkingshaw and Andrzej Wasowski},

url = {../wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2016-icsme-vts.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

urldate = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}