N degrees of separation: multi-dimensional separation of concerns
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
Domain-specific languages: an annotated bibliography
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
A Standard Problem for Evaluating Product-Line Methodologies
GCSE '01 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering
ECOOP '01 Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Modular Domain Specific Languages and Tools
ICSR '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Reuse
Application software, domain-specific languages, and language design assistants
Application software, domain-specific languages, and language design assistants
Feature-Oriented Programming and the AHEAD Tool Suite
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Variability management with feature-oriented programming and aspects
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGSOFT twelfth international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Variability management with feature models
Science of Computer Programming - Special issue: Software variability management
XVCL: a mechanism for handling variants in software product lines
Science of Computer Programming - Special issue: Software variability management
Classpects: unifying aspect- and object-oriented language design
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Classifying variability modeling techniques
Information and Software Technology
A Case Study Implementing Features Using AspectJ
SPLC '07 Proceedings of the 11th International Software Product Line Conference
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Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
The ruby programming language
A precise model for contextual roles: The programming language ObjectTeams/Java
Applied Ontology - Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective
Code generation to support static and dynamic composition of software product lines
GPCE '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
FEATUREHOUSE: Language-independent, automated software composition
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
FeatureIDE: A tool framework for feature-oriented software development
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
A comparison of context-oriented programming languages
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Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
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Classboxes: controlling visibility of class extensions
Computer Languages, Systems and Structures
Automated analysis of feature models 20 years later: A literature review
Information Systems
Language support for managing variability in architectural models
SC'08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Software composition
Multi-DSL Applications with Ruby
IEEE Software
Tag and prune: a pragmatic approach to software product line implementation
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Dynamically adaptable software product lines using Ruby metaprogramming
FOSD '10 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development
Access control in feature-oriented programming
Science of Computer Programming
Evaluating support for features in advanced modularization technologies
ECOOP'05 Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
FeatureC++: on the symbiosis of feature-oriented and aspect-oriented programming
GPCE'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering
Feature models, grammars, and propositional formulas
SPLC'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Software Product Lines
Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development I
Supporting multiple feature binding strategies in NX
FOSD '12 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development
Using document-oriented GUIs in dynamic software product lines
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Generative programming: concepts & experiences
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems
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Features are pieces of core functionality of a program that is relevant to particular stakeholders. Features pose dependencies and constraints among each other. These dependencies and constraints describe the possible number of variants of the program: A valid feature configuration generates a specific variant with unique behavior. Feature-Oriented Programming is used to implement features as program units. This paper introduces rbFeatures, a feature-oriented programming language implemented on top of the dynamic programming language Ruby. With rbFeatures, programmers use software product lines, variants, and features as first-class entities. This allows several runtime reflection and modification capabilities, including the extension of the product line with new features and the provision of multiple variants. The paper gives a broad overview to the implementation and application of rbFeatures. We explain how features as first-class entities are designed and implemented, and discuss how the semantics of features are carefully added to Ruby programs. We show two case studies: The expression product line, a common example in feature-oriented programming, and a web application.