Software Product Line (SPL) Architecture For Context Aware Health Applications

Abstract

Many organizations today are investing in software product-line architecture-for good reason. Software houses are now planning parallel teams to work over similar software but different version with enhanced or modified features. Reuse of unchanged components has not formed the rewards which are undertook because of the components that are reusable are rarely accurate fit to the needs of reuse. Mitigating method of this deficiency is to slight the applicability field to a software product line (SPL). The main problem faced in SPL is to apply the theory and techniques on newer domains, as health applications. Health applications does not require major design or interfacing change, neither a complete revamp in functions is necessary. Health applications is composed of certain features and components which uses particular sensed information, this information comes from interfaced sensors. This research focuses on a software engineering architecture for context-aware health application. The claim of use of SPL is evaluated for the proposed model and architecture. The feature-based SPL model has led to the construction of a mobile application.