Paper Info
Title
First-Class Change Objects for Feature-Oriented Programming
Abstract
A growing trend in software construction advocates the encapsulation of software building blocks as features which better match the specification of requirements. As a result, programmers find it easier to design and compose different system variations. Feature-oriented programming (FOP) is the research domain that targets this trend. We argue that the state-of-the-art approaches to FOP lack expressiveness because they specify a feature as a set of building blocks rather than a transition that has to be applied on a system in order to add that feature's functionality to the system.We propose to specify features as sets of first-class change objects which can add, modify or delete building blocks to or from a software system. We present ChEOPS, a proof-of-concept implementation of this approach and use it to show how our approach contributes to FOP on three levels: expressiveness, composition verification and bottom-up FOP.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/WCRE.2008.43
WCRE
Keywords
Field
DocType
software system,state-of-the-art approach,composition verification,compose different system variation,feature-oriented programming,bottom-up fop,first-class change object,software building block,first-class change objects,software construction,fop lack expressiveness,software systems,software engineering,unified modeling language,programming,bottom up,object oriented programming,proof of concept
Programming language,Unified Modeling Language,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Object-oriented programming,Computer science,Software system,Software,First class,Software construction,Encapsulation (computer programming),Feature-oriented programming
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1095-1350
7
0.64
References 
Authors
17
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter Ebraert115310.53