Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Variational Object-Oriented Programming Beyond Classes and Inheritance

  • Book
  • © 1998

Overview

Authors:
  1. Mira Mezini

    1. University of Siegen, Germany

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 470)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Incremental Variations in Object-Oriented Programming

    • Mira Mezini
    Pages 1-41

  3. Modeling Context-Dependent Behavior Variations

    • Mira Mezini
    Pages 43-76

  4. RONDO or a Theme on Variations

    • Mira Mezini
    Pages 77-135

  5. A Denotational Semantics of RONDO

    • Mira Mezini
    Pages 137-162

  6. Implementation Issues

    • Mira Mezini
    Pages 163-190

  7. RONDO at Work: Managing the Evolution of Class Libraries

    • Mira Mezini
    Pages 191-236

  8. Conclusions

    • Mira Mezini
    Pages 237-242

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 243-258
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Purpose of the Book This book presents an approach to improve the standard object-oriented pro­ gramming model. The proposal is aimed at supporting a larger range of incre­ mental behavior variations and thus promises to be more effective in mastering the complexity of today's software. The ability of dealing with the evolutionary nature of software is one of main merits of object-oriented data abstraction and inheritance. Object-orientation allows to organize software in a structured way by separating the description of different kinds of an abstract data type into different classes and loosely connecting them by the inheritance hierarchy. Due to this separation, the soft­ ware becomes free of conditional logics previously needed for distinguishing between different kinds of abstractions and can thus more easily be incremen­ tally extended to support new kinds of abstractions. In other words, classes and inheritance are means to properly model variations of behavior related to the existence of different kinds of an abstract data type. The support for extensi­ bility and reuse with respect to such kind-specific behavior variations is among the main reasons for the increasing popularity of object-oriented programming in the last two decades. However, this popularity does not prevent us from questioning the real effec­ tiveness of current object-oriented techniques in supporting incremental vari­ ations. In fact, this popularity makes a critical investigation of the variations that can actually be performed incrementally even more important.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Siegen, Germany

    Mira Mezini

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation