Successful software reuse requires the systematic discovery and exploitation of commonality across related software systems. In feature driven development, the end user is also involved in the process but in a. Featureide an extensible framework for featureoriented. Featureoriented domain analysis foda feasibility study. Featureoriented software development fosd takes this scenario as the context for the development of a system 3, 5. Feature driven development fdd is an agile framework that, as its name suggests, organizes software development around making progress on features. Part i provides a general introduction to featureoriented software product lines, describing the productline approach and introducing the productline development process with its two elements of domain and application engineering. Different spl implementation techniques are integrated such as feature oriented programming. An introduction to featuredriven development dzone agile. Introduction feature oriented software development fosd is a paradigm for the construction, customization, and synthesis of software systems apel and k astner, 2009. A feature is a unit of functionality of a software system that satisfies a requirement, represents a design decision, and provides a potential.
Fomdd combines feature oriented programming and model driven development together where a new synthesis design space appears. A tool framework for feature oriented software development abstract. Contents parti software product lines 1 softwareproduct lines 3 1. Classification of tools for featureoriented software development. Christiankastner1 andsvenapel2 1 philippsuniversitymarburg,germany 2 universityofpassau,germany abstract. Usecases are often found in the software product line engineering sple community, where fosd is one emerging field of implementation techniques whitepapers and tutorials on practical. By examining related software systems and the underlying theory of the class of systems they represent, domain analysis can provide a generic description of the requirements of. Feature oriented software development fosd provides a multitude of formalisms, methods, languages, and tools for building variable, customizable, and extensible software. Feature oriented programming has its origin in the old quest of computer science. Applying featureoriented software development in saas. A feature is defined in as a unit of functionality of a software system that satisfies a requirement, represents a design decision, and provides a potential configuration option. A feature is a semantically cohesive unit of behavior of a software system. In addition, an appendix lists various helpful tools for software productline development, along with a description of how they relate to the topics covered in this book. Pdf an overview of featureoriented software development.
Proceedings of the 2005 oopsla workshop on eclipse technology exchange, year 2005, pages 5559, publisher acm. Different spl implementation techniques are integrated such as featureoriented programming. In this first episode on featureoriented software development fosd, sven apel explains why developing software in a featureoriented manner is so vital for us as software engineers and why objects are simply not enough. Finally, part iii is devoted to advanced topics related to featureoriented product lines like refactoring, feature interaction, and analysis tools specific to product lines. Requirements engineering in feature oriented software. The authors distill the concepts and principles underlying the field with remarkable clarity, providing a muchneeded foundation for the field. Featureoriented software product lines springerlink. Tool support for featureoriented software development. The fosd meeting is an informal meeting designed to bring together researchers working on feature oriented software development fosd. Feature driven development fdd is an iterative and incremental software development process. In computer programming, feature oriented programming fop or feature oriented software development fosd is a programming paradigm for program generation in software product lines spls and for incremental development of programs. Feature oriented software development fosd 2009 edited by sven apel, julia lawall, christian lengauer.
Featureoriented software development semantic scholar. A feature oriented software development assistant fosda. Featureoriented software development is a paradigm for the construction, customization, and synthesis of largescale and variable software systems, focusing on structure, reuse and variation. Connection between layer stacks and transformation compositions. Algebras for featureoriented software development, isbn 374310105x, isbn 9783743101050, like new used, free shipping in the us. Featureoriented software product line development is one of the most wellknown approaches, which relies on the notion of features for identifying variability and commonality between the members of a product line. Featureoriented software development is a paradigm for the construction, customization, and synthesis of largescale and variable software systems, focusing. Featureide is an opensource framework for feature oriented software development fosd based on eclipse. Fosd meeting 2015 christian doppler laboratory monitoring. Featureoriented software development fosd is a paradigm for the construction, customization, and synthesis of largescale software.
It started in 2009 and has since evolved and expanded in what now is an international event. Featureoriented software development fosd is a paradigm for the construc tion, customization, and synthesis of largescale software systems. An extensible framework for featureoriented software. Part i provides a general introduction to feature oriented software product lines, describing the productline approach and introducing the productline development process with its two elements of domain and application engineering. Featureoriented software product lines concepts and. Featureoriented software product lines ebook by sven apel. Preface to the special issue on featureoriented software development fosd 2009 sven apel, christian lengauer, julia lawall. Featureide is an eclipsebased ide that supports all phases of featureoriented software development for the development of spls. Tools support is crucial for the acceptance of a new programming language. Featureide is an opensource framework for featureoriented software development fosd based on eclipse. The book provides a systematic introduction to featureoriented software product lines, and leads the reader to more advanced topics in its second half. It is feature oriented software development assistant. An overview of featureoriented software development sven apel, department of informatics and mathematics, university of passau, germany christian k.
Fosd feature oriented software development meeting 2017. The key idea of featureoriented software development fosd is to emphasize the similarities of a family of software systems for a given application. Featureoriented software development a short tutorial on featureoriented programming, virtual separation of concerns, and variabilityaware analysis. In this survey, we give an overview and a personal perspective on the roots of fosd, connections to other software development paradigms, and recent developments in this field. The main goal of the meeting is to foster intensive and interactive discussions around the aforementioned topics. International workshop on featureoriented software. In this tutorial, we provide a gentle introduction to software product lines, feature oriented programming, virtual separation of concerns, and. Feature oriented software development is a paradigm for the construction, customization, and synthesis of largescale and variable software systems, focusing on structure, reuse and variation. The set of software systems that can be generated is called a software product. Whitepapers and tutorials on practical application with commercial tools.
In fact, maybe we should just drop that term and call ourselves feature developers. With featureide, we have built an ide for ahead that integrates all phases of featureoriented software development. With xp programming for example, you need the users participation during the process of development as we develop with short iterations where the working software is always tested by the user. International workshop on featureoriented software development. Aspect oriented software development aosd is a software design solution that helps address the modularity issues that are not properly resolved by other software approaches, like procedural, structured and object oriented programming oop. An overview of featureoriented software development. Often mentioned in passing in agile software development books and forums, few actually know. Featureoriented software development and featureorganized code software development is all about the apps. Feature oriented software development fosd is a methodology for the design and construction of software product lines based on the separation of concern 6, each concern is modularized in a.
In this tutorial, we provide a gentle introduction to software product lines, feature oriented programming, virtual separation of concerns, and variabilityaware analysis. Finally, part iii is devoted to advanced topics related to feature oriented product lines like refactoring, feature interaction, and analysis tools specific to product lines. Feature oriented software development fosd is a paradigm for the construction, customization, and synthesis of largescale software systems. Featuredriven development fdd is one of the agile processes not talked or written about very much. Algebras for featureoriented software development, like.
The fosd meeting is an informal workshop within the field of software development for variabilityrich software systems and feature oriented software development fosd. Fdd blends a number of industryrecognized best practices into a cohesive whole. While there exist many notions of modularity and composition, featureoriented programming tackles the case of highlyentangled software features where typical module or component concepts fail. Featureoriented software development fosd provides a multitude of formalisms, methods, languages, and tools for building variable, customizable, and extensible software. Feature oriented software development research usecases are often found in the software product line engineering sple community, where fosd is one emerging field of implementation techniques. A feature is defined in 3 as a unit of functionality of a software system that satisfies a requirement, represents a design decision, and provides a potential configuration option.
If you dont have a user interface, then your software is pointless. Feature oriented software development assistant how is. Algebras for featureoriented software development, like new. However, providing such tool support is a huge investment that can usually not be provided for a research language. They are, rather, more akin to user stories in scrum.
Featureoriented softwaredevelopment how is feature. Information on feature oriented programming fop also known as feature oriented software development fosd can be found here fosd on wikipedia. Algebras for feature oriented software development, isbn 374310105x, isbn 9783743101050, like new used, free shipping in the us. Features are used for the specification of commonalities and variabilities of. Introduction featureoriented software development fosd is a paradigm for the construction, customization, and synthesis of software systems apel and k astner, 2009. An overview of feature oriented software development. While standardization has empowered the software industry to substantially scale software development and to provide affordable software to a broad market, it.
Featureide is an eclipsebased ide that supports all phases of feature oriented software development for the development of spls. Featureoriented softwaredevelopment listed as fosd. While there exist many notions of modularity and composition, feature oriented programming tackles the case of highlyentangled software features where typical module or component concepts fail. Architectureoriented or featureoriented how do you. Featureoriented software development fosd is a paradigm for the construction, customization, and synthesis of largescale software systems. Software is pointless unless it contributes towards exceptional features. The key idea of feature oriented software development fosd is to emphasize the similarities of a family of software systems for a given application. It supports the largely automatic generation of large software systems from a set of units of functionality called features. Feature orientedsoftwaredevelopment isaparadigmforthe. Feature oriented software development assistant listed as fosda. Feature orientation is an emerging paradigm of software development. Code artifacts are mapped to features, and a customized software system can be generated given a selection of features.
These practices are driven from a clientvalued functionality feature perspective. Pdf an algebra for featureoriented software development. The first priviledges teams that focus on the different architectural layers or components, whereas the second prefers to organise teams around deliverable application features. Feature orientedprogramming proceedings of the 2nd. Featureoriented software development fosd is a methodology for the design and construction of software product lines based on the separation of concern 6, each concern is modularized in a. Aspectoriented software development aosd is a software design solution that helps address the modularity issues that are not properly resolved by other software approaches, like procedural, structured and objectoriented programming oop. Featureoriented programming has its origin in the old quest of computer science. The fosd meeting is an informal workshop within the field of software development for variabilityrich software systems and featureoriented software development fosd. Feature driven development fdd is one of the agile processes not talked or written about very much.