SPLC 2023 Industry Variability Challenges Workshop

Abstract

The idea of the SPLC 2023 Industry Variability Challenges Workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss the challenges regarding variability companies are currently facing. Companies can tell the researchers what they could/should work on regarding highly variable/configurable systems, identify areas where they would like to get some help from the SPLC community, network with other companies in other domains potentially having related issues, and identify possibilities to collaborate with researchers. Researchers can learn about current challenges of companies, relate industry challenges with ongoing research, and identify possibilities to collaborate with companies. After a motivating introduction by the organizers, each company pitches their setting, especially drivers, challenges, and lessons learned with regard to dealing with variability/highly variable/configurable systems in their context. Workshop organizers document challenges live on a shared board. This is followed by open discussion guided by the workshop organizers to further extend the challenges collected on the shared board and discuss them together with all participants.