Reengineering a PC-based System into the Mobile Device Product Line

TY - GEN

T1 - Reengineering a PC-based System into the Mobile Device Product Line

AU - Zhang, Weishan

AU - Jarzabek, Stanislaw

AU - Loughran, Neil

AU - Rashid, Awais

N1 - Conference code: 6

PY - 2003

Y1 - 2003

N2 - There is a growing demand to port existing PC-based software systems to mobile device platforms. Systems running on mobile devices share basic characteristics with their PC-based counterparts, but differ from them in details of user interfaces, application models, etc. Systems running on mobile devices must also perform well using less memory than PC-based systems. Mobile devices themselves are different from each other in many ways, too. We describe how we made an existing PC-based City Guide System available on a wide range of mobile devices, in a cost-effective way. We applied "reengineering into a product line architecture" approach to achieve the goal. Our product line architecture facilitates reuse via generation. We generate specific City Guide Systems for target platforms including PC, Pocket PC and other mobile devices, from generic meta-components that form the City Guide System product line architecture. In our project, we used a meta-programming technique of XVCL to build a product line architecture for City Guide Systems.

AB - There is a growing demand to port existing PC-based software systems to mobile device platforms. Systems running on mobile devices share basic characteristics with their PC-based counterparts, but differ from them in details of user interfaces, application models, etc. Systems running on mobile devices must also perform well using less memory than PC-based systems. Mobile devices themselves are different from each other in many ways, too. We describe how we made an existing PC-based City Guide System available on a wide range of mobile devices, in a cost-effective way. We applied "reengineering into a product line architecture" approach to achieve the goal. Our product line architecture facilitates reuse via generation. We generate specific City Guide Systems for target platforms including PC, Pocket PC and other mobile devices, from generic meta-components that form the City Guide System product line architecture. In our project, we used a meta-programming technique of XVCL to build a product line architecture for City Guide Systems.

U2 - 10.1109/IWPSE.2003.1231222

DO - 10.1109/IWPSE.2003.1231222

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 0-7695-1903-2

SP - 149

EP - 160

BT - Fourth International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution

PB - IEEE Computer Society Press

T2 - Fourth International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution

Y2 - 1 September 2003 through 2 September 2003

ER -