Feature oriented software development framework for stock exchange systems

Abstract

Many software companies use the popular method of layered architecture to develop their software products resulting in code to be more generic. This generalization introduces a lot of unnecessary elements which make the system architecture to be heavy and less elegant. To overcome this challenge, a concept of feature oriented software development (FOSD) is introduced. That way, the software system will be delivered as a set of features and the feature set could be decoupled at any time, according to the latest set of requirements without harming to any existing functionality. In this research the final outcome has been a feature oriented domain specific language (DSL). The objective of this developed feature oriented DSL is to make it effective even for business analysts to introduce new features without getting help from the development team of the project. A code generator and a core controller have been developed as part of this research exhibiting the above mentioned FOSD & DSL principles. The evaluation results indicate the generated feature oriented code identically behaves as its manually written counterpart code.