With the growing academic and industrial interest in Software Product Lines (SPL), one area demanding special attention is tool support development, which is a pre-requisite for w...
Fernando Calheiros, Vilmar Nepomuceno, Paulo Borba...
The design of the variability of a software product line is crucial to its success and evolution. Meaningful variable features need to be elicited, analyzed, documented and validat...
Reinhard Stoiber, Samuel Fricker, Michael Jehle, M...
Over 30 years ago, the preprocessor cpp was developed to extend the programming language C by lightweight metaprogramming capabilities. Despite its error-proneness and low ion lev...
Separation of concerns is one of the overarching goals of exception handling in order to keep separate normal and exceptional behaviour of a software system. In the context of a s...
Ivo Augusto Bertoncello, Marcelo Oliveira Dias, Pa...
Software product lines - families of similar but not identical software products - need to address the issue of feature variability. That is, a single feature might require various...