Feature-oriented software product lines

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Standardization has significantly advanced the software industry, enabling scalable and affordable software development for a wide market. However, it often overlooks smaller segments and individual customer needs. Software product lines aim to balance mass production with mass customization, allowing manufacturers to create tailored software products using reusable components. The concept of features is crucial, as it connects customer requirements with product functionality, playing a vital role throughout product-line development. The authors adopt a developer's perspective, emphasizing the development, maintenance, and implementation of product-line variability, particularly focusing on automated product derivation based on user-selected features. The book is divided into three parts. Part I introduces feature-oriented software product lines, outlining the product-line approach and detailing the development process, which encompasses domain and application engineering. Part II explores various implementation techniques, including design patterns, frameworks, feature-oriented programming, and tool-based methods like preprocessors and version-control systems. Part III addresses advanced topics, such as refactoring and feature interaction, and provides an appendix with helpful tools for software product-line development. Two running examples, data management for embedded systems and graph data structure variations, are used