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Feature-Oriented Domain Analysis (FODA) Feasibility Study

November 1990 Technical Report
Kyo C. Kang (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Sholom G. Cohen, James A. Hess, William E. Novak, A. Spencer Peterson

This 1990 report establishes methods for performing a domain analysis and describes the products of the domain analysis process.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-90-TR-021

Abstract

Successful software reuse requires the systematic discovery and exploitation of commonality across related software systems. By examining related software systems and the underlying theory of the class of systems they represent, domain analysis can provide a generic description of the requirements of that class of systems and a set of approaches for their implementation. This report will establish methods for performing a domain analysis and describe the products of the domain analysis process. To illustrate the application of domain analysis to a representative class of software systems, this report will provide a domain analysis of window management system software.