Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development

Abstract

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 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. The goal of the FOSD'10 workshop is to foster and strengthen the collaboration between the different researchers who work in the field of FOSD or in the related fields of software product lines, aspect-oriented software development, service-oriented architecture, and model-driven engineering. A keynote by Christian Prehofer, a leading researcher in FOSD, will be an excellent start up for discussions on historical perspectives, current issues, and visions of FOSD. The FOSD workshop builds on the success of a previous edition, held at GPCE'09, and a series of workshops on product lines, generative programming, and aspect orientation, held at GPCE'06, GPCE'07, and GPCE'08. We received an excellent number of 20 submissions. The review process led to the selection of 11 papers for presentation. We would like to thank the program committee and the authors for their contributions to the success of the workshop.