FeatureIDE: A tool framework for feature-oriented software development

Author

Kästner, Christian ; Thüm, Thomas ; Saake, Gunter ; Feigenspan, Janet ; Leich, Thomas ; Wielgorz, Fabian ; Apel, Sven

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Magdeburg, Magdeburg

fYear

2009

fDate

16-24 May 2009

Firstpage

611

Lastpage

614

Abstract

Tools support is crucial for the acceptance of a new programming language. However, providing such tool support is a huge investment that can usually not be provided for a research language. With FeatureIDE, we have built an IDE for AHEAD that integrates all phases of feature-oriented software development. To reuse this investment for other tools and languages, we refactored FeatureIDE into an open source framework that encapsulates the common ideas of feature-oriented software development and that can be reused and extended beyond AHEAD. Among others, we implemented extensions for FeatureC++ and FeatureHouse, but in general, FeatureIDE is open for everybody to showcase new research results and make them usable to a wide audience of students, researchers, and practitioners.

Keywords

C++ language; software maintenance; software tools; FeatureC++; FeatureHouse; FeatureIDE; feature-oriented software development; programming language; Availability; Computer languages; Computer science; Education; Informatics; Investments; Java; Mathematics; Open source software; Programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2009. ICSE 2009. IEEE 31st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3453-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070568

Filename

5070568