Research Article
A Feature-Oriented Mobile Software Development Framework to Resolve the Device Fragmentation Phenomenon for Application Developers in the Mobile Software Ecosystem
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-38904-2_20, author={Younghun Han and Gyeongmin Go and Sungwon Kang and Heuijin Lee}, title={A Feature-Oriented Mobile Software Development Framework to Resolve the Device Fragmentation Phenomenon for Application Developers in the Mobile Software Ecosystem}, proceedings={Cloud Computing. 6th International Conference, CloudComp 2015, Daejeon, South Korea, October 28-29, 2015, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={CLOUDCOMP}, year={2016}, month={5}, keywords={Mobile software ecosystem Device fragmentation phenomenon Feature model Android}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-38904-2_20} }- Younghun Han
Gyeongmin Go
Sungwon Kang
Heuijin Lee
Year: 2016
A Feature-Oriented Mobile Software Development Framework to Resolve the Device Fragmentation Phenomenon for Application Developers in the Mobile Software Ecosystem
CLOUDCOMP
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-38904-2_20
Abstract
In the current mobile software environment, the device fragmentation phenomenon causes a serious problem to the mobile software ecosystem stakeholders. Since mobile manufacturers make various differentiated hardware components for product differentiation around strategically selected open platforms, a huge number of devices are produced each year. Since the application developers have to verify manually whether the developed application is compatible with specific devices, a tremendous burden is put on the application developers. To solve this problem, we propose a feature-oriented mobile software development framework and implement as part of it an automated tool for compatibility verification. To evaluate our framework, we conduct a case study with 10 devices and 21 features from the real world. The result of the case study indicates that a significant effort reduction can be achieved by using our framework.