Print Email Facebook Twitter FEVER: Extracting Feature-oriented Changes from Commits Title FEVER: Extracting Feature-oriented Changes from Commits Author Dintzner, N.J.R. Van Deursen, A. Pinzger, M. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Software Technology Date 2016-03-14 Abstract The study of the evolution of highly configurable systems requires a thorough understanding of thee core ingredients of such systems: (1) the underlying variability model; (2) the assets that together implement the configurable features; and (3) the mapping from variable features to actual assets. Unfortunately, to date no systematic way to obtain such information at a sufficiently fine grained level exists. To remedy this problem we propose FEVER and its instantiation for the Linux kernel. FEVER extracts detailed information on changes in variability models (KConfig files), assets (preprocessor based C code), and mappings (Make- files). We describe how FEVER works, and apply it to several releases of the Linux kernel. Our evaluation on 300 randomly selected commits, from two different releases, shows our results are accurate in 82.6% of the commits. Fur- thermore, we illustrate how the populated FEVER graph database thus obtained can be used in typical Linux engineering tasks. Subject featurevariabilitytraceability To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:af49bb05-099d-4ba7-9736-e23b90a2496b Publisher ACM Embargo date 2016-03-15 ISBN 978-1-4503-4186-8 Source https://doi.org/10.1145/2901739.2901755 Source MSR'16 The 13th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, May 14–15, 2016. Austin, Texas, USA Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2016 The Author(s) Files PDF changes.pdf 394.26 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:af49bb05-099d-4ba7-9736-e23b90a2496b/datastream/OBJ/view