First International Workshop on Feature Oriented Software Development (FOSD2009)

First Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD)

in conjunction with MODELS’09, GPCE’09, and SLE’09

Denver, Colorado, October 6th, 2009

with a Keynote by Don Batory

http://www.fosd.de/2009


Feature orientation is an emerging paradigm of software development. It supports the largely automatic generation of large software systems from a set of units of functionality, so called 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 domain e.g.,database systems, banking software, text processing systems) with the goal of reusing software artifacts among the family members. Features distinguish different members of the family. A
challenge in FOSD is that a feature does not map cleanly to an isolated module of code. Rather it may affect ('cut across') many components/documents of a software system. Research on FOSD has shown that the concept of features pervades all phases of the software life cycle and requires a proper treatment in terms of analysis, design, and programming techniques, methods, languages, and tools, as well as formalisms and theory.

http://www.infosun.fim.uni-passau.de/cl/staff/apel/FOSD2009/index.html