Towards the Establishment of a Software Product Line for Mobile Learning Applications

The enormous popularity of mobile devices in the society has motivated the development of mobile learning applications. In spite of the benefits with regard to teaching and training, the existing learning applications still have to address issues and challenges related to the development, reuse and architectural standardization. On the other hand, researches have been carried out to employ the Software Product Lines (SPL) approach through the development of mobile learning applications. A SPL focuses on software reuse and has been successfully applied for specific domains. In this context, this paper proposes M-SPLearning, one SPL particularly established to the mobile learning applications domain. The main goal of MSPLearning is to provide benefits with regard to the overall quality, domain comprehension, and reduction of the time spent in the development and maintenance of m-learning applications. Keywordsm-learning; software product line; mobile learning applications; proactive adoption model