Software portability

Software portability

Portability is one of the key concepts of high-level programming. Portability is the software codebase feature to be able to reuse the existing code instead of creating new code when moving software from an environment to another. The prerequirement for portability is the generalized abstraction between the application logic and system interfaces. When one is targeting several platforms with the same application, portability is the key issue for development cost reduction [cite paper
last = Mooney
title = Bringing Portability to the Software Process
date = 1997
publisher = West Virginia University. Dept. of Statistics and Computer Science
url = http://www.cs.wvu.edu/~jdm/research/portability/reports/TR_97-1.pdf
format = PDF
accessdate = 2008-03-17
] [Citation
last = Garey
title = Software Portability: Weighing Options, Making Choices
journal = The CPA Journal
volume = 77
issue = 11
pages = 3
year = 2007
] .

The action of moving software from a platform to another is called porting.

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