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

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Reengineering a PC-based System into the Mobile Device Product Line
Weishan Zhang and Stan Jarzabek
Department of Computer Science, SOC
National University of Singapore
Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 117543
{zhangws, stan}@comp.nus.edu.sg
Neil Loughran and Awais Rashid
Computing Department
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK
{loughran, awais}@comp.lancs.ac.uk
Abstract
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-…