Flexible feature binding in software product lines

Automated Software Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-197

  Rosenmüller, Marko ^a   Siegmund, Norbert ^a   Apel, Sven ^a   Saake, Gunter ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic binding; Feature binding time; Feature composition; Feature oriented programming; Software product lines; Static binding

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC BINDING; FEATURE BINDING; FEATURE COMPOSITION; FEATURE-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES; STATIC BINDING;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE;

EID: 79960051887     PISSN: 09288910     EISSN: 15737535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10515-011-0080-5     Document Type: Article

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