Vision Paper Published at FSE 2025: Community-Driven Variability (CDV)

At this year’s FSE 2025 conference in Trondheim, we presented our vision paper  “Beyond Software Families: Community-Driven Variability”. It’s about the beautiful chaos in open-source, decentralized software ecosystems – such as Bitcoin – that exhibit multi-dimensional variability, yet strive for interoperability. We discuss this phenomenon of Community-Driven Variability (CDV), highlight emerging problems, and outline research goals to tackle them.

Interested in more details on CDV? Feel free to reach out to the authors – and stay tuned for ongoing work on the topic.