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Improving reuse of component families by generating component hierarchies

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Marko Rosenmüller,

Norbert Siegmund,

Martin KuhlemannAuthors Info & Claims

FOSD '10: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development

Pages 57 - 64

https://doi.org/10.1145/1868688.1868697

Published: 10 October 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Feature-oriented software development (FOSD) enables developers to generate families of similar components. However, current FOSD approaches degrade component reuse because they do not allow a developer to combine multiple components of the same family in a larger program. This is because individual family members cannot be distinguished from each other. We present an approach to model and generate component hierarchies that allow a programmer to combine multiple component variants. A component hierarchy structures the components of a family according to their functionality. Due to subtyping between the components of a hierarchy, client developers can write generic code that works with different component variants.

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Rosenmüller MSiegmund NThüm TSaake GHeymans PCzarnecki KEisenecker U(2011)Multi-dimensional variability modelingProceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems10.1145/1944892.1944894(11-20)Online publication date: 27-Jan-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1944892.1944894

Index Terms

Improving reuse of component families by generating component hierarchies
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Domain specific languages
    2. Software libraries and repositories

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FOSD '10: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development

October 2010

94 pages

ISBN:9781450302081

DOI:10.1145/1868688

Editors:
Sven Apel
University of Passau, DE
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Don Batory
University of Texas at Austin
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Krzysztof Czarnecki
University of Waterloo, CA
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Florian Heidenreich
University of Dresden, DE
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Christian Kästner
University of Marburg, DE
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Oscar Nierstrasz
University of Berne, CH

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Rosenmüller MSiegmund NThüm TSaake GHeymans PCzarnecki KEisenecker U(2011)Multi-dimensional variability modelingProceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems10.1145/1944892.1944894(11-20)Online publication date: 27-Jan-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1944892.1944894

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