Our General Chair and master of ceremonies closes #SPLC2025, passing the torch to Gilles Perrouin!
It was a pleasure having you all in A Coruña, Spain ❤️💛❤️
Wishing everyone a safe trip home —see you next year @ VARIABILITY 2026 in Limassol, Cyprus! 🇨🇾

David Romero Organvídez is in charge of closing the last edition of SPLC with the research paper "Feedback analysis in software product line forked developments"
🔗Full paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3744915.3748465

Maider Azanza is our second to last presenter! She takes the stage with the industrial paper "Managing Variability in Software Onboarding Roadmaps: An Industrial Case Study"
🔗Full paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3744915.3748481

José Manuel Sánchez Ruiz takes the stage again to present the research paper "Feature-Based Characterization of GitHub OSS Projects for Performance Assessment"
🔗Full paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3744915.3748467

We also celebrated the quality of contributions this year, and Best Paper Award went to:
“Software Variability as a New Dimension of Computational Thinking: an Exploration” by Moreno-León et al. Congratulations to the authors! 🎉
🔗https://doi.org/10.1145/3744915.3748459

Oscar Díaz opens our last session on Feature Usage and Feedback, with the Journal-First paper "How can feature usage be tracked across product variants? Implicit Feedback in Software Product Lines"
🔗Proceedings: https://doi.org/10.1145/3744915.3748485
🔗Original paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2024.112013

This year the Best Artifact Award at #SPLC2025 went to: "Investigating the Effects of T-Wise Interaction Sampling for Vulnerability Discovery in Highly-Configurable Software Systems" by Bächle et al.
Congratulations to the authors! 🎉
🔗https://doi.org/10.1145/3744915.3748462

A huge thank you to all our reviewers for their hard work and dedication in providing timely and constructive reviews that made #SPLC2025 possible!
Special congratulations to our Best Reviewers, Maurice ter Beek and Barbara Gallina
Your commitment strengthens our community!

Gala Dinner gave us the opportunity to thank our keynote speakers, Wesley K.G. Assunção, Meike Klettke, and Marsha Chechik, PC chairs, and organizing committee, led by Miguel Luaces, for their hard work and dedication 🙌
SPLC 2025 would have been possible without all of you!

Ferdinand Auerswald presents the research paper "Simplified Extensibility in the Universal Variability Language using Answer Set Programming"
🔗Full paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3744915.3748461