An analysis of the variability in forty preprocessor-based software product lines

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 105-114

  Liebig, Jörg ^a   Apel, Sven ^a   Lengauer, Christian ^a   Kästner, Christian ^b   Schulze, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

C preprocessor; empirical study; software product lines

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION LEVEL; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES; LANGUAGE DESIGN; METAPROGRAMMING CAPABILITIES; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; PREPROCESSORS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAM SIZE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TOOL SUPPORT;

LINGUISTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 77954730541     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1806799.1806819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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