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Delta-oriented programming (DOP) is a flexible approach for implementing software product lines (SPLs). DOP SPLs are implemented by a code base (a set of delta modules encapsulating changes to object-oriented programs) and a product line declaration (...

A software product line is a set of similar software products that share a common code base. While software product lines can be implemented efficiently using feature-oriented programming, verifying each product individually does not scale, especially ...

When using product lines, whose variability models are based on derived features, e.g., Simulink variant objects, the dependencies among the features are only described implicitly. This makes it difficult to verify the mapping of the features to the ...

A technique for synthesizing iterators from declarative abstraction functions written in a relational logic specification language is described. The logic includes a transitive closure operator that makes it convenient for expressing reachability ...

Twig is a language for writing typemaps, programs which transform the type of a value while preserving its underlying meaning. Typemaps are typically used by tools that generate code, such as multi-language wrapper generators, to automatically convert ...

Package Templates (PT) is a mechanism designed for writing reusable modules, called templates, each consisting of a set of classes that can be adapted to their use in a program through compile-time specialization. A template must be instantiated in a ...

In the context of Component-based Programming, which addresses the implementation stage of a component-based software engineering development process, this paper describes a specification and an operational integration of an inheritance system into a ...

Component-based development promotes a software development process that focuses on component reuse. How to describe a desired component before searching in the repository? How to find an existing component that fulfills the required functionalities? ...

HotDrink is a JavaScript library for constructing forms, dialogs, and other common user interfaces for Web applications. With HotDrink, instead of writing event handlers, developers declare a "view-model" in JavaScript and a set of "bindings" between ...

A classical approach to program derivation is to progressively extend a simple specification and then incrementally refine it to an implementation. We claim this approach is hard or impractical when reverse engineering legacy software architectures. We ...

Developing applications that use complex platforms for functionalities such as authentication and messaging is hard. Model-driven engineering promises to help, but transformation systems are themselves hard to produce. We contribute a new approach using ...

In the adaptation-based programming (ABP) paradigm, programs may contain variable parts (function calls, parameter values, etc.) that can be take a number of different values. Programs also contain reward statements with which a programmer can provide ...

Xtext is an open-source framework for implementing external, textual domain-specific languages (DSLs). So far, most DSLs implemented with Xtext and similar tools focus on structural aspects such as service specifications and entities. Because behavioral ...

Honu is a new language that fuses traditional algebraic notation (e.g., infix binary operators) with Scheme-style language extensibility. A key element of Honu's design is an enforestation parsing step, which converts a flat stream of tokens into an S-...

We present a formal calculus for modeling and implementing variation in software. It unifies the compositional and annotative approaches to feature implementation and supports the development of abstractions that can be used to directly relate feature ...