Print Email Facebook Twitter Extracting Feature Model Changes from the Linux Kernel Using FMDiff Title Extracting Feature Model Changes from the Linux Kernel Using FMDiff Author Dintzner, N.J.R. Van Deursen, A. Pinzger, M. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Software Technology Date 2014-01-01 Abstract The Linux kernel feature model has been studied as an example of large scale evolving feature model and yet details of its evolution are not known. We present here a classification of feature changes occurring on the Linux kernel feature model, as well as a tool, FMDiff, designed to automatically extract those changes. With this tool, we obtained the history of more than twenty architecture specific feature models, over ten releases and compared the recovered information with Kconfig file changes. We establish that FMDiff provides a comprehensive view of feature changes and show that the collected data contains promising information regarding the Linux feature model evolution. Preprint accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software intensive Systems, VaMoS 2014. Nice, France, January 22-24, 2014. Subject software product lineLinuxfeature modelevolution To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5bf2e055-2612-48c4-adbc-3260c4d24fe6 Publisher Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group ISSN 1872-5392 Source Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2014-001 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights (c) 2014 The author(s)Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology. Files PDF TUD-SERG-2014-001.pdf 2.49 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5bf2e055-2612-48c4-adbc-3260c4d24fe6/datastream/OBJ/view