The idea for this book arose from a series of lectures on modern programming paradigms,
feature-oriented programming, and software product lines that are continuously held at the …

Code duplication or copying a code fragment and then reuse by pasting with or without any
modifications is a well known code smell in software maintenance. Several studies show …

Over 30 years ago, the preprocessor cpp was developed to extend the programming
language C by lightweight metaprogramming capabilities. Despite its error-proneness and …

In many projects, lexical preprocessors are used to manage different variants of the project
(using conditional compilation) and to define compile-time code transformations (using …

Almost every software system provides configuration options to tailor the system to the target
platform and application scenario. Often, this configurability renders the analysis of every …

Dataplane languages like P4 enable flexible and efficient packet-processing using domain-
specific primitives such as programmable parsers and match-action tables. Unfortunately …

Abstract CONTEXT. Software Product Lines (SPLs) aim to support the development of a
whole family of software products through systematic reuse of shared assets. As SPLs …

The classical plain-text representation of source code is convenient for programmers but
requires parsing to uncover the deep structure of the program. While sophisticated software …

Software product line engineering is an efficient means of generating a family of program
variants for a domain from a single code base. However, because of the potentially high …

Highly configurable systems allow users to tailor software to specific needs. Valid
combinations of configuration options are often restricted by intricate constraints. Describing …