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This chapter illustrates our proposal named Emergent Interfaces. To better illustrate how our interfaces work, we revisit the problematic scenarios of Chap. 3. Then, we show the general idea and how we compute dependencies. Afterwards, we explain our proposal to compute dependencies based on dataflow analyses, making such analyses feature sensitive. Then, we show how to use feature-sensitive analyses to compute Emergent Interfaces and the tool support named Emergo. Last but not least, we improve the expressiveness of Emergent Interfaces by using contracts and then illustrate how we can apply Emergent Interfaces in other mechanisms apart from preprocessors.

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    Notice that this idea fits into ordinary interfaces as well. Changing the interfaces imply changing their clients.

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  1. Computing Institute, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil

    Márcio Ribeiro

  2. Informatics Center, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

    Paulo Borba

  3. Department of Software and Systems, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Claus Brabrand

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Ribeiro, M., Borba, P., Brabrand, C. (2014). Emergent Feature Modularization. In: Emergent Interfaces for Feature Modularization. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11493-4_4

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