SELF-ADAPTIVE MOBILE APPLICATIONS AND THEIR ARCHITECTURAL STABILITY

Nowadays mobile applications are becoming more and more universal. Due to increasing hardware enhancement on regular basis, multiple versions of operating systems and device specifications make self-adaption an essential attribute for mobile application's architecture. Therefore, to cater for the dynamic environment, systems must dynamically adapt their architecture to fulfill functional and non-functional requirements. Stability of an architecture basically defines that how well an architecture will accommodate the changing requirements and adapt to the dynamic environment. Thus, behavioral stability of a self-adaptive system is a major concern while developing self-adaptive systems. To address this issue, we work out a methodical approach which can be used for the analysis and modeling of systems with enhance architectural stability; furthermore, this method emphasizes on the behavioral characteristics of a system during execution. For the proof of concept of our method, we applied this approach on the architecture of a mobile application. Our proposed model is focused to gain the stockholders' desire for architecture stability and other related attributes.