Aspectual Feature Modules

Two programming paradigms are gaining attention in the overlapping fields of software product lines (SPLs) and incremental software development (ISD). Feature-oriented programming (FOP) aims at large-scale compositional programming and feature modularity in SPLs using ISD. Aspect-oriented programmin...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on software engineering Jg. 34; H. 2; S. 162 - 180
Hauptverfasser: Apel, Sven, Leich, Thomas, Saake, Gunter
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York IEEE 01.03.2008
IEEE Computer Society
Schlagworte:
Atomic force microscopy
Collaboration
Collaborative software
Computer languages
Computer programming
Computer programs
Computer Society
Decomposition
Design
Design engineering
Design Tools and Techniques
Digital Object Identifier
Informatics
Java
Java (programming language)
Language Constructs and Features
Large-scale systems
Modularity
Modules
Paradigms
Product lines
Programming
Programming languages
Software
Software design
Software development
Software engineering
Software performance
Studies
Symbiosis
Design
Design Tools and Techniques
Language Constructs and Features
ISSN:0098-5589, 1939-3520
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Zusammenfassung:Two programming paradigms are gaining attention in the overlapping fields of software product lines (SPLs) and incremental software development (ISD). Feature-oriented programming (FOP) aims at large-scale compositional programming and feature modularity in SPLs using ISD. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) focuses on the modularization of crosscutting concerns in complex software. While feature modules, the main abstraction mechanisms of FOP, perform well in implementing large-scale software building blocks, they are incapable of modularizing certain kinds of crosscutting concerns. This weakness is exactly the strength of aspects, the main abstraction mechanisms of AOP. In this article we contribute a systematic evaluation and comparison of FOP and AOP. It reveals that aspects and feature modules are complementary techniques. Consequently, we propose the symbiosis of FOP and AOP and aspectual feature modules (AFMs), a programming technique that integrates feature modules and aspects. We provide a set of tools that support implementing AFMs on top of Java and C++. We apply AFMs to a non-trivial case study demonstrating their practical applicability and to justify our design choices.
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ISSN:0098-5589
1939-3520
DOI:10.1109/TSE.2007.70770