{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,25]],"date-time":"2026-02-25T18:01:50Z","timestamp":1772042510775,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":63,"publisher":"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)","issue":"1","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,1]],"date-time":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1609459200000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/Xplorehelp\/downloads\/license-information\/IEEE.html"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,1]],"date-time":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1609459200000},"content-version":"stm-asf","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15223\/policy-029"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,1]],"date-time":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1609459200000},"content-version":"stm-asf","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15223\/policy-037"}],"funder":[{"name":"Vinnova Sweden","award":["2016-02804"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["2016-02804"]}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100004359","name":"Vetenskapsr\u00e5det","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["257822902"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["257822902"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100004359","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100001659","name":"Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["AP206\/5"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["AP206\/5"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100001659","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100001659","name":"Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["AP 206\/6"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["AP 206\/6"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100001659","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100001659","name":"Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["AP 206\/11"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["AP 206\/11"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100001659","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["IIEEE Trans. Software Eng."],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,1]]},"DOI":"10.1109\/tse.2018.2884911","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,7]],"date-time":"2018-12-07T00:15:16Z","timestamp":1544141716000},"page":"146-164","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["A Study of Feature Scattering in the Linux Kernel"],"prefix":"10.1109","volume":"47","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6591-993X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Leonardo","family":"Passos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Rodrigo","family":"Queiroz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3868-4319","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mukelabai","family":"Mukelabai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3870-5167","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thorsten","family":"Berger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3687-2233","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sven","family":"Apel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Krzysztof","family":"Czarnecki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jesus Alejandro","family":"Padilla","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"263","reference":[{"key":"ref39","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.csda.2007.11.008"},{"key":"ref38","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/TSE.2015.2415793"},{"key":"ref33","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jss.2011.10.050"},{"key":"ref32","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/1159733.1159765"},{"key":"ref31","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/ICSM.2000.883030"},{"key":"ref30","author":"venkateswaran","year":"2008","journal-title":"Essential Linux Device Drivers"},{"key":"ref37","article-title":"Designing an effective survey","author":"kasunic","year":"2005"},{"key":"ref36","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/TSE.2008.36"},{"key":"ref35","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/ACOM.2007.4"},{"key":"ref34","article-title":"Linux kernel development: How fast it is going, who is doing it, what they are doing, and who is sponsoring it","author":"corbet","year":"2015"},{"key":"ref60","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/CSMR-WCRE.2014.6747177"},{"key":"ref62","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/ICSE.2017.58"},{"key":"ref61","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/MS.2014.103"},{"key":"ref63","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3183440.3183499"},{"key":"ref28","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/2162024.2162030"},{"key":"ref27","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-642-15579-6_10"},{"key":"ref29","author":"corbet","year":"2005","journal-title":"Linux Device Drivers"},{"key":"ref2","first-page":"49","article-title":"On the inference of configuration structures from source code","author":"snelting","year":"1994","journal-title":"Proc 16th Int Conf Softw Eng"},{"key":"ref1","first-page":"185","article-title":"#ifdef considered harmful, or portability experience with C news","author":"spencer","year":"1992","journal-title":"Proc Winter Usenix Conf"},{"key":"ref20","first-page":"892","article-title":"Triangulation","volume":"1","author":"rothbauer","year":"2008","journal-title":"SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods"},{"key":"ref22","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/1858996.1859010"},{"key":"ref21","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/TSE.2013.34"},{"key":"ref24","first-page":"45","article-title":"The variability model of the Linux kernel","author":"she","year":"2010","journal-title":"Proc Int Workshop Variability Modelling Softw -Intensive Syst"},{"key":"ref23","article-title":"The kernel build infrastructure","year":"2015"},{"key":"ref26","first-page":"2","article-title":"Is the Linux Kernel a software product line?","author":"sincero","year":"2007","journal-title":"Proc Int Workshop Open Source Softw Product Lines"},{"key":"ref25","article-title":"Advanced configuration and power interface specification, revision 5.0","year":"2015"},{"key":"ref50","first-page":"37","article-title":"Theories and techniques of program understanding","author":"paul","year":"1991","journal-title":"Proc Conf Centre Adv Studies Collaborative Res"},{"key":"ref51","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/ICSE.2003.1201304"},{"key":"ref59","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/ICSME.2018.00049"},{"key":"ref58","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-319-54045-0_13"},{"key":"ref57","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3023956.3023967"},{"key":"ref56","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/2791060.2791107"},{"key":"ref55","author":"kr\u00fcger","year":"2018","journal-title":"Features and How to Find Them A Survey of Manual Feature Location"},{"key":"ref54","first-page":"532","article-title":"Finalist 2: Feature identification, localization, and tracing tool","author":"burger","year":"2018","journal-title":"Proc IEEE Int Conf Softw Anal Evol Reengineering"},{"key":"ref53","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-642-36654-3_2"},{"key":"ref52","first-page":"53","article-title":"Feature location in source code: A taxonomy and survey","volume":"25","author":"dit","year":"2013","journal-title":"Journal of Software: Evolution and Process"},{"key":"ref10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/302405.302457"},{"key":"ref11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/1081706.1081734"},{"key":"ref40","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/ICSM.2009.5306322"},{"key":"ref12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/TSE.2007.70770"},{"key":"ref13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/2019136.2019142"},{"key":"ref14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s10664-015-9364-x"},{"key":"ref15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/2430502.2430526"},{"key":"ref16","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/CSMR.2008.4493313"},{"key":"ref17","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/ICPC.2009.5090037"},{"key":"ref18","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5072\/f9gn-c410"},{"key":"ref19","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/2724525.2724575"},{"key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BFb0053381"},{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/ICSM.1996.565036"},{"key":"ref6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-642-37521-7"},{"key":"ref5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/1189748.1189751"},{"key":"ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/1960275.1960299"},{"key":"ref7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/1806799.1806819"},{"key":"ref49","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/CSMR.2011.25"},{"key":"ref9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s10270-015-0483-z"},{"key":"ref46","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/smr.1595"},{"key":"ref45","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/2791060.2791108"},{"key":"ref48","author":"ganter","year":"1997","journal-title":"Formal Concept Analysis Mathematical Foundations"},{"key":"ref47","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11219-013-9204-4"},{"key":"ref42","article-title":"Anatomy of the Linux kernel","author":"jones","year":"2018","journal-title":"IBM Developer Works"},{"key":"ref41","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-642-15579-6_48"},{"key":"ref44","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/3168365.3168371"},{"key":"ref43","author":"moore","year":"2009","journal-title":"Introduction to the Practice of Statistics"}],"container-title":["IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/xplorestaging.ieee.org\/ielx7\/32\/9318455\/08565973.pdf?arnumber=8565973","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,10]],"date-time":"2022-05-10T14:50:05Z","timestamp":1652194205000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/8565973\/"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,1]]},"references-count":63,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1"},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/tse.2018.2884911","relation":{},"ISSN":["0098-5589","1939-3520","2326-3881"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0098-5589","type":"print"},{"value":"1939-3520","type":"electronic"},{"value":"2326-3881","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,1]]}}}