About

The FOSD meeting is a yearly informal meeting to bring together researchers working on feature-oriented software development (which includes product lines, software variability, configuration management, software architecture, and more). The meeting started 9 years ago to bring several research groups with common interests closer together, has successfully been expanded and repeated 9 times with 20 to 50 participants each, and has established countless collaborations since. For example, see FOSD 2017 in Darmstadt and FOSD 2016 in Copenhagen.

The format of the FOSD meeting consists of short presentations from each participant with plenty of time for discussion. Young researchers (graduate and undergraduate students), as well as more senior community members, present their research, provide and get feedback from others, engage into discussions and establish new collaborations. FOSD is a place for discussion, not a publication venue. Participants can present previously published work as well as unpublished work, including early ideas and work in progress. The key is to encourage discussions, to receive feedback and to create a network for new collaboration

Every year there is an informal competition, the FOSD Cool Wall (see fosd.net), where everyone votes for the coolest name of a tool that has been presented during the meeting.

The FOSD meeting 2018 will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from June 3 (early afternoon) until June 6, 2018 (evening). Some invitation emails contained slightly different dates, sorry.

The deadline for the abstract is February 1, 2018. FOSD does not require any paper submission and does not have proceedings, though we do expect an abstract about the research that is to be presented and an e-mail address of the participant. Due to space restrictions, we may have to select participants, but we will send notifications shortly after the abstract deadline. If you need more lead time for visa application or travel planning, reach out to us.

Participants

We are glad to have the following participants.

Name Title University
Sebastian Böhm Automata-Guided Reuse of Abstraction Precisions for Variant Verification University of Passau
Andreas Stahlbauer Variable Variability-aware Verification: An Empirical Study University of Passau
Thomas Bock Feature-Development Activity of Core and Peripheral Developers within the Release Cycle of Mozilla Firefox University of Passau
Florian Sattler A data-flow-based taint analysis to detect feature regions with VaRA University of Passau
Bastian Fleischmann Meta-Learning for Performance Prediction on Configurable Software Systems University of Passau
Sven Apel Visualizing and Comparing Performance Influence Models University of Passau
Christian Kaltenecker Distance-Based Sampling University of Passau
Alexander Grebhahn A (Semi-)Automatic Mechanism to Generate Variants of Existing Framework Applications University of Passau
Georg Seibt Integrating Versions and Variants: An Empirical Study on Merge, Build, and Test Conflicts University of Passau
Gustavo do Vale On The Relation Between Merge Conflicts and Coordination Activities University of Passau
Ina Schaefer Correctness-by-Construction for Software Product Lines TU Braunschweig
Jeffrey Young Variational Satisfiability Solving Oregon State University
Alexander Knüppel Understanding Parameters of Deductive Verification: An Empirical Investigation of KeY TU Braunschweig
Thomas Thüm Product Configuration in the Wild: A Case Study of Real-World Web Configurators [slides] TU Braunschweig
Mukelabai Mukelabai Analysis of Software Product Lines: An Investigation of Industrial Practice and Needs Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
JACOB KRÜGER Thinking in Features: How Do Developers Remember Source Code? Hochschule Harz – University
Hendrik Speidel Using feature-oriented techniques to compose semi-structured text documents schnapptack GmbH
Florian Niederhuber Change-Region Detection using VaRA and LLVM University of Passau
Alexander Schlie Comparing Multiple MATLAB/Simulink Models Using Static Connectivity Matrix Analysis TU Braunschweig
Max Weber Supporting the Discovery of Performance Hot-Spots University of Weimar
Miguel Velez ConfigCrusher: White-Box Performance Analysis for Configurable Systems [slides] Carnegie Mellon
Norbert Siegmund Pervolution: Performance Evolution of Configurable Software Systems University of Weimar
Lars Luthmann Sampling Strategies for Infinite Configuration Spaces (joint work with Malte Lochau) [slides] TU Darmstadt
Tobias Runge A Classification and Taxonomy of Product Sampling for Software Product Lines TU Braunschweig
Chu-Pan Wong Application of Variational Execution [slides] Carnegie Mellon
Jens Meinicke Lightweight generation of variational traces from single executions Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Larissa Rocha Soares VarXplorer: Reasoning About Feature Interactions [slides] Federal University of Bahia
Juliane Fischer Configurable component description and retrieval using FeatureIDE Technical University of Munich
Sandro Schulze The Sky is the Limit — Comprehensive Variability Mining Using Round-trip Engineering [slides] Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Yang Li Variability Extraction from Natural Language Requirements Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Sandra Greiner Strengths and Weaknesses of Trace-Based Approaches Propagating Feature Annotations in Model Transformations [slides] Uni Bayreuth
Sebastian Krieter Managing Variability On-The-Fly: Keeping Feature Model and Variable Source Code Aligned Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Thorsten Berger A Classification of Variation Control System Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
Shurui Zhou Identifying redundancies in Fork-based Development [slides] Carnegie Mellon
Christian Kästner Compositional Analysis of Security-Relevant Configuration Options [slides] Carnegie Mellon
Mahsa Varshosaz Delta-Oriented FSM-Based Testing Halmstad University

Your Talk

This year, every participant has an allocated slot of 25 minutes. Please prepare slides that do not require more than 13 minutes of presentation such that we have at least half of the slot for discussions. We will enforce the 13 min time limit strictly.

This year’s group picture: Participants 2018

Group picture from last year: Participants 2017

Location & Travel Information

The FOSD Meeting 2018 will take place at Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg, Sweden. Specifically, it will be held at Campus Johanneberg (http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/premises-and-campus/Pages/find-your-way-to-chalmers.aspx), which is the larger one of the two Chalmers Campus (the smaller one is at Lindholmen).

Meeting room: Fysikhuset, room FL51 Fysikgården 3, Göteborg (see google map)

All participants will stay in the Quality Hotel Panorama, just a 900m away from the campus:

Quality Hotel Panorama Gothenburg
Eklandagatan 51-53
Gothenburg, Sweden

There will be a flat registration fee that covers your stay, all meals, and the social event on Tuesday afternoon. We will try to organize some drinks at cost price for the evenings. We will organize hotel reservation and payment centrally, covered via the registration fee.

We expect that most participants will arrive Sunday morning (or stay after ICSE and rest for one day) and that depart Thursday morning.

Arrival via Rail

Exit the train at the central station/the Nils Ericsson terminal. Take bus 16, destination Högsbohöjd, from the stop Nordstan, just outside the terminal. From Drottningstorget, also just outside the central station, you can take tram 13, heading “Sahlgrenska”, to Chalmers. From Brunnsparken, approximately 500 meters from the central station there are additional tram lines that will take you to Chalmers. From there you can walk to the hotel or come directly to the FOSD meeting on campus. Please visit Västtrafik for details.  

Arrival via Air

Landvetter Airport in Gothenburg has daily flights to and from most major European cities. It is possible to take a Taxi from the airport directly to the hotel, and the price from the airport to the city center is around SEK 400 (45€). http://www.taxigoteborg.se/En/Home

There is also a convenient airport bus service that connects Landvetter Airport to the Central Station in Gothenburg. The bus stop is right outside the airport’s entrance and 2-4 buses run every hour. The travel time to the Central Station is about 30 minutes, and the trip costs SEK 105 (approximately 11 €). The buses are called Flygbussarna and tickets can be purchased online (and shown to the driver on the mobile phone), via totems at the airport, or directly on the bus (a bit more expensive). If you want to use these busses to get to Chalmers Johanneberg Campus or to the hotel, get off the airport bus at station Korsvägen. It is the first stop when the bus arrives Gothenburg, after only 15min travel time. https://www.flygbussarna.se/en/landvetter

Keynote Speakers

Schedule

The meeting will run from June 3 (1pm) until June 6 (evening) and includes a social event on June 5 (afternoon). We will release the exact presentation order at the workshop itself.

Schedule Sunday, Jun 3

Address: Fysikhuset, room FL51

Session: 02:00 - 03:15, Chair: Christian Kästner

Session: 03:40 - 04:30, Chair: Andreas Stahlbauer

Session: 04:45 - 05:35, Chair: Shurui Zhou

Schedule Monday, Jun 4

Address: EL 43 in the Edit Building

Session: 09:00 - 10:15, Chair: Thorsten Berger

Session: 10:45 - 12:00, Chair: Jens Meinicke

Session: 01:30 - 02:45, Chair: Larissa Rocha Soares

Session: 03:10 - 04:00, Chair: Sebastian Böhm

Session: 04:15 - 05:05, Chair: Juliane Fischer

Schedule Tuesday, Jun 5

Address: EL 43 in the Edit Building

Session: 09:00 - 10:15, Chair: Jeffrey Young

Session: 10:45 - 12:00, Chair: Chu-Pan Wong

Session: 01:30 - 03:35, Chair: Sandra Greiner

Session: 03:50 - 06:00, Chair:

Schedule Wednesday, Jun 6

Address: EDIT Building, use main entrance, follow signs

Session: 09:00 - 10:15, Chair: Sven Apel

Session: 10:45 - 12:00, Chair: Max Weber

Session: 01:30 - 02:45, Chair: Sebastian Krieter

Session: 03:10 - 04:00, Chair: Yang Li

Session: 04:15 - 04:45, Chair: Mukelabai Mukelabai

Social Event

VISA Information

If you are a non EU citizen, please find if you need a visa for entering Sweden and Schengen Area. A list for citizen of countries that need a visa can be found here Do I need a visa?. Contact Thorsten if you need an invitation letter.

Contact

For abstract submission please send an e-mail with title and abstract (text only, half page max, no attachment) to Shurui Zhou: shuruiz@cs.cmu.edu.
For other questions please send an e-mail to Thorsten Berger: thorsten.berger@chalmers.se.

Organizers

Thorsten Berger thorsten.berger@chalmers.se
Shurui Zhou shuruiz@cs.cmu.edu
Christian Kästner kaestner@cs.cmu.edu
Sven Apel apel@uni-passau.de
Georg Seibt seibt@fim.uni-passau.de