Delta-oriented Programming for Software Product Lines
Paper i proceeding, 2010

Feature-oriented programming (FOP) implements software product lines by composition of feature modules. It relies on the principles of stepwise development. Feature modules are intended to refer to exactly one product feature and can only extend existing implementations. To provide more flexibility for implementing software product lines, we propose delta-oriented programming (DOP) as a novel programming language approach. A product line is represented by a core module and a set of delta modules. The core module provides an implementation of a valid product that can be developed with well-established single application engineering techniques. Delta modules specify changes to be applied to the core module to implement further products by adding, modifying and removing code. Application conditions attached to delta modules allow handling combinations of features explicitly. A product implementation for a particular feature configuration is generated by applying incrementally all delta modules with valid application condition to the core module. In order to evaluate the potential of DOP, we compare it to FOP, both conceptually and empirically.

Författare

Ina Schaefer

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Programvaruteknik (Chalmers)

Lorenzo Bettini

Universita degli Studi di Torino

Viviana Bono

Universita degli Studi di Torino

Ferruccio Damiani

Universita degli Studi di Torino

Nico Tanzarella

Universita degli Studi di Torino

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 6287 77-91
978-364215578-9 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Programvaruteknik

Datorseende och robotik (autonoma system)

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-15579-6_6

ISBN

978-364215578-9

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2017-10-07