Any idea what the product-line community should work on in the next years? Then submit your challenge to the SPLC 2025 by March 13, 2024! Mathieu Acher and I are looking forward to your submission! CfP: 2024.splc.net/calls/call-for…

Right now at #FOSD2024: Norbert Siegmund illustrating that slide numbers are the most important part of slides… by starting with an (almost) empty title slide.

The GPCE conference is happening again at SPLASH Conference! Submit your work and join us in Pasadena in October! Conference website: 2024.splashcon.org/home/gpce-2024 Abstract submission: Thursday June 6 Paper submission: Thursday June 13

Quick reminder: the GPCE24 abstract deadline is today!

The #GPCE24 deadlines have been extended to: Abstract Submission: June 11, 2024 Paper Submission: June 18, 2024 CfP: 2024.splashcon.org/home/gpce-2024… Please help to spread the news!

“AI assisted programming boils away the joy of writing code leaving only the tedious obligation to debug the work of a precocious psychotic novice.” — K Lars Lohn

We showcased our novel UVL Feature-Model Generator (with support for _all_ UVL language levels) at #SPLC24! Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114… Tool: github.com/SoftVarE-Group… Authors: Chico Sundermann, Tobias Heß, Rahel Sundermann, Elias Kuiter, Sebastian Krieter, Thomas Thüm.

Sandra Greiner (@sandragreiner) presenting our foundational work on optimizing the accuracy of retroactive feature-tracing techniques with pinpointed proactive knowledge exploitation. Part of the VariantSync project. Authors ⬇️

👉 Chico Sundermann presenting the result of hundreds of hours of work: A comprehensive collection of feature-model instances from research and industry with the goal of improving the validity and relevance of future empirical works in product-line research. #SPLC24 Authors ⬇️

Tobias Heß (Tobias Heß) presenting a novel deterministic variable ordering algorithm based on the detection of XOR groups and the scalability improvements it yields when compiling binary decision diagrams from real-world feature models. #SPLC24

👉 Chico Sundermann is pulling double duty today and presents our collection and inspection of knowledge compilation targets and their capabilities when applied in the analysis of feature models. (journal-first paper), authors ⬇️

Congratulations again @sandragreiner @SchultheissAlex Paul Bittner Thomas Thüm Timo Kehrer ! 🤩🥳

ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (#GPCE24) will take place on October 22 in Pasadena, California Checkout the program: 2024.splashcon.org/home/gpce-2024…

Which language should I use to formalize my research on software variability? Find out in our recent OOPSLA paper, were we gather, unify, and compare formal languages: doi.org/10.1145/3689747 See you next week SPLASH Conference 🤗 for my talk with examples in C++ and 🍔

This year's edition of GPCE is over. We have had lively discussions and the room was so crowded that few participants even had to stand in the back. Here some impressions from Celeste Hollenbeck's (Celeste) inspiring talk on method inlining. 2024.splashcon.org/details/gpce-2…

How to architect and design a modern university course on software product lines? Me, Thomas Thüm, and Timo Kehrer share our experiences in creating such a course in a recently accepted paper at VaMoS 2025 (@[email protected]) #VaMoS2025. Find out more on our website: github.com/SoftVarE-Group…

Exciting talk alert! “Teach Variability! A Modern University Course on Software Product Lines” by Elias Kuiter Thomas Thüm Timo Kehrerb now at VaMoS 2025 (@[email protected])

For many years, the ICSE submission was only possible in summer. This year, there are two cycles and the first deadline is already in about 5 weeks. What are you waiting for? Stop idling on social media & start writing your paper! The PC is looking forward to your submission :)

For #VaMoS2025 the Best Research Paper goes to... Elias Kuiter, Thomas Thüm and Timo Kehrer - Teach Variability! A Modern University Course on Software Product Lines Elias calls to further teach variability! cc Juliana A. Pereira Clément Quinton Thomas Thüm Elias Kuiter

Our work "Pick Me: Judging Sample Quality with Binary Decision Diagrams" has been accepted into SPLC 2025'25 🎉. This work is based on the Bachelor's Thesis of my amazing student Aaron Molt (who will be looking for a PhD position soon 😉). Details and preprint below ⬇️ #SPLC25