fosd.net

Overview

A feature is a semantically cohesive unit of behavior of a software system. Features are used for the specification of commonalities and variabilities of software systems. For example, in the domain of data management there are features such as transaction management, storage management, and multi-user support.

It would be easier to develop software if its features would be explicit in design and code and if software could be generated solely by composing features. This methodology is called Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD). Currently, there is a multitude of different methods, languages, and tools for FOSD that -- despite their common aim -- are difficult to compare and integrate. For a recent survey see the paper An Overview of Feature-Oriented Software Development.

Links

This web site acts as a portal for different projects in FOSD research.

Links on this site:

• CIDE (/cide)
• FeatureIDE (/fide)
• FeatureHouse (/fh)
• FeatureFoundation (/ff)
• FeatureC++ (/fcc)
• Model Composition (/mc)
• FOSD Workshop 2009 (/2009)
• FOSD Workshop 2010 (/2010)
• FOSD Workshop 2011 (/2011)
• FOSD Workshop 2012 (/2012)
• FOSD Workshop 2013 (/2013)
• FOSD Workshop 2014 (/2014)
• FOSD Workshop 2016 (/W2016)
• Feature Featherweight Java (/ffj)
• LJAR Technical Report (/LJARTech)
• Empirical Evaluation of Program Comprehension (/experiments)
• CPPStats (/cppstats)
• FOSD Treffen 2010 in Magdeburg (/treffen2010)
• FOSD Treffen 2011 in Dresden (/treffen2011)
• FOSD Treffen 2012 in Braunschweig (/treffen2012)
• FOSD Treffen 2013 in Dagstuhl (/treffen2013)
• International FOSD Meeting 2014 in Dagstuhl (/meeting2014)
• International FOSD Meeting 2015 in Traunkirchen (/meeting2015)
• International FOSD Meeting 2016 in Copenhagen (/meeting2016)
• International FOSD Meeting 2017 in Darmstadt (/meeting2017)
• International FOSD Meeting 2018 in Gothenburg (/meeting2018)
• International FOSD Meeting 2019 in Weimar (/meeting2019)
• International FOSD Meeting 2022 in Vienna (/meeting2022)
• International FOSD Meeting 2023 in Ulm (/meeting2023)
• International FOSD Meeting 2025 in Köthen (/meeting2025)
• Colored Featherweight Java (/cfj)
• Multi Software Product Lines (/multiple)
• Fuji: Feature-Oriented Java Compiler (/fuji)
• cnife: A tool for the transformation of #ifdefs into feature-modules (/cnife)
• FeatureVisu (/FeatureVisu)
• FeatureTweezer (/FT)
• Feature Commander (/fc)
• Variability Mining with LEADT (/leadt)
• Product-Line Testing (SharQ framework) (/tests)
• Software Measures and Program Comprehension (/swm)
• SPL Conqueror (/SPLConqueror)
• View Infinity:A Zoomable Interface for FOSD (/vi)
• Feature-Aware Verification (/FAV)
• Results of an empirical study on semistructured and unstructured merge (/SSMerge)
• PROPHET: Supporting Program-Comprehension Experiments (/prophet)
• TypeChef: Type checking #ifdef variability (in the Linux kernel) (/TypeChef)
• SpeK: Composition of Feature-Oriented Specification given in the Java Modeling Language (/spek)
• Measuring Programming Experience (/PE)
• JDime: Structured Merge with Auto-Tuning (/JDime)
• Analyses Strategies for Software Product Lines (/spl-strategies)
• Does the Discipline of Preprocessor Annotations Matter? A Controlled Experiment (/experimentIfdef)
• Scalable Analysis of Variable Software (/vaa)
• FeatureBite: A Feature-Oriented Composer for Java Bytecode (/featurebite)
• Family-Based Measurement (/Family)
• Variability in Open-Source and Industrial Software Systems (/oss_vs_is)
• Morpheus: Variability-Aware Refactoring in the Wild (/morpheus)
• Presence-Condition Simplification (/pcsimp)
• Variability-Aware Execution for PHP (/varex)
• Analyzing Embedded HTML Code in PHP (/varis)
• Contracts for Software Product Lines (/spl-contracts)
• Survey on Tools for FOSD (/tools)
• SPLConqueror-FSE15 (/SPLConqueror-FSE15)
• SIFTA: Scalable Analysis of Inter-App Communication (/siftaeval)
• VarexJ - Variability-Aware Execution for Java (/varexj)
• Variability-Aware Static Analysis at Scale: An Empirical Study (/var_stat_analysis)
• Tradeoffs in Modeling Performance of Highly-Configurable Software Systems (/tradeoffs)