Sixth International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE'03)
Reengineering a PC-Based System into the Mobile Device Product Line
Helsinki, Finland
September 01-September 02
ISBN: 0-7695-1903-2
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. In this paper, 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 metaprogramming technique of XVCL to build a product line architecture for City Guide Systems.
Citation:
Weishan Zhang, Stan Jarzabek, Neil Loughran, Awais Rashid, "Reengineering a PC-Based System into the Mobile Device Product Line," iwpse, pp.149, Sixth International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE'03), 2003