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A machine-checked model of safe composition

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Benjamin Delaware,

William Cook,

Don BatoryAuthors Info & Claims

FOAL '09: Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Foundations of aspect-oriented languages

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Programs of a software product line can be synthesized by composing features which implement some unit of program functionality. In most product lines, only some combination of features are meaningful; feature models express the high-level domain constraints that govern feature compatibility. Product line developers also face the problem of safe composition -- whether every product allowed by a feature model is type-safe when compiled and run. To study the problem of safe composition, we present Lightweight Feature Java (LFJ), an extension of Lightweight Java with support for features. We define a constraint-based type system for LFJ and prove its soundness using a full formalization of LFJ in Coq. In LFJ, soundness means that any composition of features that satisfies the typing constraints will generate a well-formed LJ program. If the constraints of a feature model imply these typing constraints then all programs allowed by the feature model are type-safe.

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