Feature interaction: a critical review and considered forecast

By Muffy Calder, M. Kolberg, E. Magill, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec. Comput. Networks, 2003

457 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The state of the art of the field of feature interactions in telecommunications services is reviewed, concentrating on three major research trends: software engineering approaches, formal methods, and on line techniques. Then, the impact of the new, emerging architectures on the feature interaction problem is considered. A forecast is made about how research in feature interactions needs to readjust to address the new challenges posed by the emerging architectures.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

A Classification and Survey of Analysis Strategies for Software Product Lines (2014, background): “A well-known problem in this context is feature interactions [Calder et al. 2003]: several features work as expected in isolation but lead to unexpected behavior in combination.”
Model checking lots of systems: efficient verification of temporal properties in software product lines (2010, background): “In addition to the above, there is a body of related research in the field of feature interaction detection [5].”
Feature-Oriented Software Product Lines (2013, background): “Forwarding and CallWaiting interact (Calder et al. 2003).”
An Overview of Feature-Oriented Software Development (2009, background): “Finally, there is a significant body of work on specifying and resolving feature interactions at the design/specification level [39,107].”