“…Although sampling techniques, especially uniform random sampling, can be used as a simple way to solve search-related problems on highly-configurable systems (Oh et al, 2017;Heradio et al, 2022b;Batory et al, 2021), there exist other search-based software engineering techniques (Lopez-Herrejon et al, 2015a) that have been applied in AAFM. For instance, genetic algorithms and metaheuristics (Yadav et al, 2020;Guo et al, 2019;Sayyad et al, 2013) have achieved great success in the AAFMs area for several problems where both configurations and feature models are the main concepts, such as the feature selection optimization (Yadav et al, 2020;Guo et al, 2019;do Nascimento Ferreira et al, 2017), or the reverse engineering of feature models (Assunção et al, 2017b;Lopez-Herrejon et al, 2015b;Assunção et al, 2020Assunção et al, , 2017aLinsbauer et al, 2017).…”