Addressing Context-Awareness In User Interface Software Product Lines (Ui-Spl) Approaches

The development of context aware UIs has become a major requirement to ensure their efficiency and improve their usability, thus inducing many variations of the same UI depending on the constraints imposed by the context of use. To address this challenge, many works decided to rely on the Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) paradigm. Software product lines (SPLs) were widely used due to their advantages, such as, but not limited to: the reuse of shared artifacts, the generation of specific products from shared artifacts, the reduction in time, effort and cost of development. Others works have relied on Dynamic Software Product Line (DSPL) approaches to develop a family of adaptive UIs. The DSPL exploits the knowledge acquired in SPLE to develop systems that can be context-aware, post-deployment reconfigurable, or adaptable at run-time. In order to address the challenge of context awareness, this paper presents an overview of UI-(D) SPL approaches which specifically focus on context-aware adaptation of user interfaces.