Feature-Oriented Software Development Research

Introduction

A feature is a semantically cohesive unit of behavior of a software system. Features are used for the specification of commonalities and variabilities of software systems. For example, in the domain of data management there are features such as transaction management, storage management, and multi-user support.

It would be easier to develop software if its features would be explicit in design and code and if software could be generated solely by composing features. This methodology is called Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD). Currently, there is a multitude of different methods, languages, and tools for FOSD that -- despite their common aim -- are difficult to compare and integrate. For a recent survey see the paper An Overview of Feature-Oriented Software Development.

This web site acts as a portal for different projects in FOSD research.

Links on this site:

• CIDE (/cide)
• FeatureIDE (/fide)
• FeatureHouse (/fh)
• FeatureFoundation (/ff)
• Bridging the Gap between Variability in Client Application and Database Schema (/er)
• FeatureC++ (/fcc)
• Model Composition (/mc)
• FOSD Workshop 2009 (/2009)
• FOSD Workshop 2010 (/2010)
• FOSD Workshop 2011 (/2011)
• FOSD Workshop 2012 (/2012)
• Feature Featherweight Java (/ffj)
• LJAR Technical Report (/LJARTech)
• Empirical Evaluation of Program Comprehension (/experiments)
• CPPStats (/cppstats)
• FOSD Treffen 2010 (/treffen2010)
• FOSD Treffen 2011 (/treffen2011)
• FOSD Treffen 2012 (/treffen2012)
• Colored Featherweight Java (/cfj)
• Multi Software Product Lines (/multiple)
• Fuji: Feature-Oriented Java Compiler (/fuji)
• cnife: A tool for the transformation of #ifdefs into feature-modules (/cnife)
• FeatureVisu (/FeatureVisu)
• FeatureTweezer (/FT)
• Feature Commander (/fc)
• Variability Mining with LEADT (/leadt)
• Product-Line Testing (SharQ framework) (/tests)
• Software Measures and Program Comprehension (/swm)
• SPL Conqueror (/SPLConqueror)
• View Infinity:A Zoomable Interface for FOSD (/vi)
• Feature-Aware Verification (/FAV)
• Results of an empirical study on semistructured and unstructured merge (/SSMerge)
• PROPHET: Supporting Program-Comprehension Experiments (/prophet)
• TypeChef: Type checking #ifdef variability (in the Linux kernel) (/TypeChef)
• SpeK: Composition of Feature-Oriented Specification given in the Java Modeling Language (/spek)
• Measuring Programming Experience (/PE)

Contact

This web site is maintained by Christian Kästner at the Philipps University Marburg.