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In this chapter we review essential concepts we explore in this work. Firstly, we review software families and software product lines, since the problem we address here is critical in these contexts. We show the basic concepts and then move towards conditional compilation with preprocessors, a widely used mechanism to implement features in industrial practice. Despite the widespread usage, conditional compilation has several drawbacks. We then present the Virtual Separation of Concerns (VSoC) approach, which can minimize some of these drawbacks. In this work, we intend to address the lack of feature modularity. Thus, we need to catch dependencies between features and inform developers about them. To do so, we rely on dataflow analyses, the last topic we review in this chapter.
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Ribeiro, M., Borba, P., Brabrand, C. (2014). Software Families, Software Products Lines, and Dataflow Analyses. In: Emergent Interfaces for Feature Modularization. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11493-4_2
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