Buscando información sobre POA (programación orientada a aspectos) me encontré con esta nota sobre Context-oriented programming (existe un pdf del mismo autor para descargar), que por lo que pude investigar es muy parecido (y quizás lo mismo) que variation-oriented engineering.

Muchos de estos conceptos nacieron en los 90 apartir de algunas limitaciones que tiene el paradigma de objetos, como por ejemplo la separación de los asuntos.

Adjunto el “abstract” de la nota

Context-dependent behavior is becoming increasingly important for a wide range of application domains, from pervasive computing to common business applications. Unfortunately, mainstream programming languages do not provide mechanisms that enable software entities to adapt their behavior dynamically to the current execution context. This leads developers to adopt convoluted designs to achieve the necessary runtime flexibility. We propose a new programming technique called Context-oriented Programming (COP) which addresses this problem. COP treats context explicitly, and provides mechanisms to dynamically adapt behavior in reaction to changes in context, even after system deployment at runtime. In this paper we lay the foundations of COP, show how dynamic layer activation enables multi-dimensional dispatch, illustrate the application of COP by examples in several language extensions, and demonstrate that COP is largely independent of other commitments to programming style.

Les dejo también unos papers sobre COP para el que quiera seguir investigando

• ContextJ: Context-oriented Programming with Java
• Feature Descriptions for Context-oriented Programming
• Modularizing Context-dependent Behavioral Variations with Context-oriented Programming
• Context-Oriented Programming
• A Comparison of Context-oriented Programming Languages