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''Analysis and Transformation of Product Lines'' by Jörg Liebig

Today's software systems have grown to a level of complexity that make
them hard to understand and maintain for developers. It is not only
their sheer size, but also their variability that contributes to their
high complexity. Nowadays, software systems support a variety of
hardware platforms and provide different configuration options to
enable users to adopt a system in application scenarios. To realize
the required variability, developers usually make use of product-line
technologies such as feature-oriented programming.

Among different implementation techniques and tools that have been
proposed by practitioners and researchers, the C preprocessor (cpp) is
one of the tools most frequently used to implement variable software.
It relies on a set of directives (a.k.a. macros) that developers use
to express explicit source-to-source transformations. Unfortunately,
cpp is not obliged to respect the syntactic structure of the underlying
language (e.g., C) and, thus, users do not necessarily respect it either.
However, existing analysis and transformation techniques expect
structured input. thus, the use of cpp in the development of product
lines imposes many challenges.

In this presentation, we present our findings regarding three research
questions on the analysis and transformation of cpp-based product lines.

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