Feature-oriented ___domain analysis: Difference between revisions

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Feature-oriented ___domain analysis was first developed by the [[Software Engineering Institute]] in 1990.<ref name="Cza 44">Czarknecki, p.44</ref> In the initial technical report, a study performed determined that feature oriented ___domain analysis was not only beneficial, but was described as a "necessary first step" for [[software reuse]].<ref name="Kang 99">Kang, p.99</ref> The report introduced the concept of [[feature model]]s to [[___domain engineering]] in an effort to represent the standard features within the family of systems in the ___domain as well as the relationships between those features.<ref name="Kang 42">Kang, p.42</ref> Since then, feature models have been characterized as "the greatest contribution of ___domain engineering to software engineering".<ref name="Cza 82">Czarknecki, p.82</ref>

Much of the wordwork leading up to the development of FODA was sponsored by the [[U.S. Department of Defense]] through research programs related to software reuse during the late 1980s. FODA was developed as a comprehensive analysis and refinement of technology developed from 1983&ndash;1990.<ref name="Cza 57">Czarnecki, p.57</ref> While some aspects of FODA have changed, and it has become integrated with [[model-based software engineering]], FODA is still known as the method that initially introduced feature models to ___domain engineering.<ref name="Cza 44" />

==Purpose==