Dealing with Variability in Context-Aware Mobile Software

Mobile context-aware software pose a set of challenging requirements to developers as these applications exhibit novel features, such as handling varied sensing devices and dynamically adapting to the user’s context (e.g. his or her location), and evolve quickly according to technological advances....

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Fortier, Andrés, Rossi, Gustavo Héctor, Gordillo, Silvia Ethel, Challiol, Cecilia
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2010
País:Argentina
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositório:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/76524
Acesso em linha:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/76524
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Ciencias Informáticas
context-awareness
mobile software
architecture
software variability
Descrição
Resumo:Mobile context-aware software pose a set of challenging requirements to developers as these applications exhibit novel features, such as handling varied sensing devices and dynamically adapting to the user’s context (e.g. his or her location), and evolve quickly according to technological advances. In this paper, we discuss how to handle variability both across different domains and during the evolution of a single application. We present a set of design structures for solving different problems related with mobility (such as location sensing, behaviour adaptation, etc.), together with the design rationale underlying them, and show how these sound micro-architectural constructs impact on variability. Our presentation is illustrated with case studies in different domains.