Great news, two paper acceptances in the same day, ICST'2021 and TOSEM!
A Formal Framework of Software Product Line Analysis was accepted for publication in the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). In this paper, we generalize our prior work on reliability analysis of software product lines to consider arbitrary analysis. We provide a framework that was specified and proved using the PVS theorem prover.
Moreover, Demystifying the Challenges to Formally Specifying API Properties for Runtime Verification was accepted for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2021). In this paper, we assess the challenges of specifying Java API properties for the purpose of runtime verification with a minimalist specification language. The main messages of this work are that 1) it is feasible to use a simple imperative language for specifying properties without significant loss of generality; and that 2) developers are capable of writing specifications in the (programming) language they feel comfortable.