A Systematic Literature Review on Feature Oriented Software Development Paradigm
K. U. Kala, M. Nandhini · International Journal of Engineering and Technology · 2017
Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD) is a software development paradigm focusing on the overall process of software development of large-scale software systems.The main focus of feature orientation is to divide the software product line systems (SPLs) in terms of features.A feature represents a product requirement of a stakeholder.From the set of features, various software products have automatically derived that share some features and differ in another feature based on customer requirement.The main objective of the work is to identify the state of the art in the overall software development process using FOSD paradigm.The other focuses are finding the phase of FOSD which need more focus, based on automation, and identify the quantity and the types of researches on FOSD techniques to address the software product line development concerns and thus finding the areas discussed and problems addressed so far in the published papers of FOSD.The review was conducted by following the Kitchenham's guidelines for conducting the systematic literature review, with five research questions and assessed 118 publications from the origin to 2017 from the 5 electronic sources of relevance to FOSD Research and selected 63 from them for detailed study.FOSD is an emerging trend in software development based on automation.Our Study analyses each area, in which existing research is focused and propose the ongoing phases of interest in feature-oriented software development and revealed the need of further research in this field.