VARIABILITY 2026 - International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration

Topics of Interest
We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all
phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
Requirements & Domain Engineering
• Domain analysis and variability modeling
• Decision modeling and support
• Customization and personalization specification
• Requirements variability and traceability
Architecture & Design
• Variability-aware software architectures
• Architecture-centric product line engineering
• Model-driven engineering (MDE)
• Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software
ecosystems
Implementation & Code Generation
• Generative programming and code synthesis
• Modularization techniques for reusable code
• Programming languages and frameworks for variability
• Open-source strategies for software reuse
Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance
• Testing and analysis of configurable systems
• Safety and security in variable systems
• Formal Methods for Software Product Lines
• Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration
• Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance
Evolution, Maintenance & Operation
• Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems
• Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring
• Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines
• Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems
• Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
AI and Data-Driven Methods
• Machine learning for variability management
• AI-assisted product configuration
• Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories
• Recommendation systems for reuse and customization