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A Systematic Literature Review for Software Portability Measurement: Preliminary Results

Authors:

Hamza Ghandorh,

Abdulfattah Noorwali,

Ali Bou Nassif,

Luiz Fernando Capretz,

Roy EaglesonAuthors Info & Claims

ICSCA '20: Proceedings of the 2020 9th International Conference on Software and Computer Applications

Pages 152 - 157

https://doi.org/10.1145/3384544.3384569

Published: 17 April 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Software developers agree that software portability is a desirable attribute for their software quality. Software portability is mostly acquired by ad-hoc techniques when trying to port existing products. There is a lack of unified measuring approach of software portability in most computing platforms. This paper presents preliminary results of a systematic literature review, conducted to collect evidence on measuring software portability. The evidence was gathered from selected studies and based on a set of meaningful and focused questions. 49 studies of these were selected for data extraction performed against the research questions. We provide an overview of used\proposed measurement metrics of software portability. Our results suggested that there are scattered efforts to understand measurement of software portability, and no census has been achieved.

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A Systematic Literature Review for Software Portability Measurement: Preliminary Results
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Software usability

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Aleyasen AMorcos MAntova LSugiyama MKorablev DPatvarczki JMutreja RDuller MWaas FWinslett MIves ZBonifati AEl Abbadi A(2022)Intelligent Automated Workload Analysis for Database ReplatformingProceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data10.1145/3514221.3526050(2273-2285)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3526050
Faiz MKusumo DAlibasa M(2022)Flutter Framework Code Portability Measurement on Multiplatform Applications with ISO 91262022 1st International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Technology (ICoSEIT)10.1109/ICoSEIT55604.2022.10030045(36-40)Online publication date: 22-Nov-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICoSEIT55604.2022.10030045

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