The consequences of unwanted feature interactions in a Software Product Line (SPL) can range from minor problems to critical software failures. However, detecting feature interactions in reasonably complex model-based SPLs is a non-trivial task. This is ...

Industries that successfully apply product line approaches often operate in markets that are well established and have a strategic perspective. Consequently, such organizations have a tendency towards long-term planning of products and product lines. ...

One of the basic pillars in Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) is defined by model transformations and likewise several useful approaches have been proposed in this context. In parallel, domain modeling plays an essential role in MDSD to support ...

The paradigms of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) facilitate the development of families of software-intensive products. Software Product Line practices can be leveraged to support the development of ...

Done well, the blend of Model Driven Development (MDD) and Software Product Lines (SPL) offers a promising approach, mixing abstraction from MDD and variability from SPL. Although Model Driven Product Lines have flourished recently, the focus so far has ...

Feature, algebra was introduced as an abstract framework for feature oriented software development. One goal is to provide a common, clearly defined basis for the key ideas of feature orientation. We first present concrete models for the original axioms ...

Variability modelling with feature models is one key technique for specifying the problem space of software product lines (SPLs). To allow for the automatic derivation of a concrete product based on a given variant configuration, a mapping between ...

There are many different implementation approaches to realize the vision of feature-oriented software development, ranging from simple preprocessors, over feature-oriented programming, to sophisticated aspect-oriented mechanisms. Their impact on ...

Electronic Health Records (EHR) have been proposed as a means for managing the technical and organisational complexity that arises in modern healthcare. Different EHR systems are being developed around the world, and within individual countries, ...

Implementation of feature-oriented systems is typically made by creating an admissible configuration, according to a specified feature diagram, that dictates what artifacts are to be composed to create the desired solution. These artefacts are typically ...

Solution-driven product line engineering is a project business where products are created for each customer individually. Although reuse of results from former projects is widely done, configuration and integration of the results currently is often a ...

In feature-oriented programming (FOP), a programmer decomposes a program in terms of features. Ideally, features are implemented modularly so that they can be developed in isolation. Access control is an important ingredient to attain feature modularity ...

Feature-oriented decomposition of software is known to improve a programmer's ability to understand and modify software during maintenance tasks. However, it is difficult to take advantage of this fact in case of object-oriented software due to lack of ...

Features identify core characteristics of software in order to produce families of programs. Through configuration, different variants of a program can be composed. Our approach is to design features as first-class entities of a language. With this ...

Among the key elements of mature engineering is automated production: we understand the technical problems and we understand their solutions; our goal is to automate production as much as possible to increase product quality, reduce costs and time-to-...

Feature orientation is an emerging paradigm of software development. It supports the largely automatic generation of large software systems from a set of units of functionality, so-called features. The key idea of feature-oriented software development (...