Presenter: Don Batory (University of Texas at Austin, US)

Title: On the Importance and Challenges of FOSD

Abstract: Among the key elements of mature engineering is
automated production: we understand the technical problems
and we understand their solutions; our goal is to automate
production as much as possible to increase product quality,
reduce costs and time-to-market, and be adept at creating
new products quickly and cheaply.

Automated production is a technological statement of
maturity: "We've built these products so often by hand that
we've gotten it down to a Science". Models of automated
production are indeed the beginnings of a Science of
Automated Design (SOAD). Feature Oriented Software
Development (FOSD) will play a fundamental role in SOAD,
and I believe also play a fundamental role in the future
of software engineering.

In this presentation, I explain what distinguishes FOSD
from other software design disciplines and enumerate key
technical barriers that lie ahead for FOSD and SOAD.