Modeling interactions in feature oriented software designs
Jia Liu, Don S. Batory, Srinivas Nedunuri · 2005
Feature Oriented Programming (FOP) is a general theory of software development where programs are assembled by composing feature modules. A feature X interacts structurally with another feature Y by changing Y’s source code. We advance FOP by proposing an algebraic theory of structural feature interactions that models feature interactions as derivatives. We use our theory to show how a legacy Java application can be refactored into a feature-based design.