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User Interfaces and Dynamic Software Product Lines

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In the modern world of mobile computing and ubiquitous technology, society can interact with technology in new and fascinating ways. To help provide an improved user experience, mobile software should be able to adapt itself to suit the user. By monitoring context information based on the environment and user, the application can better meet the dynamic requirements of the user. Similarly, it is noticeable that programs can require different static changes to suit static requirements. This program commonality and variability can benefit from the use of Software Product Line Engineering, reusing artefacts over a set of similar programs, called a Software Product Line (SPL). Historically, SPLs are limited to handling static compile time adaptations. Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPL) however, allow for the program configuration to change at runtime, allow for compile time and runtime adaptation to be developed in a single unified approach. While currently DSPLs provide methods for dealing with program logic adaptations, variability in the Graphical User Interface (GUI) has largely been neglected. Due to this, depending on the intended time to apply GUI adaptation, different approaches are required. The main goal of this work is to extend a unified representation of variability to the GUI, whereby GUI adaptation can be applied at compile time and at runtime. In this chapter, we introduce an approach to handling GUI adaptation within DSPLs, which provides a unified representation of GUI variability.

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Kramer, D., Oussena, S. (2017). User Interfaces and Dynamic Software Product Lines. In: Sottet, JS., García Frey, A., Vanderdonckt, J. (eds) Human Centered Software Product Lines. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60947-8_2

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