Digital home application is a very disruptive market overcoming
the potential that the Internet has and the incorporation
of mobile devices together with the evolution of the TV to
Smart TV in the digital home. These devices increasingly
depend on reliable software to offer a good user experience.
However, the current digital home platform landscape is highly
heterogeneous, with different operating systems resulting in
barriers to achieve cross-platform development and testing
processes for digital home applications. New envisaged applications
could engage with information and services exploiting
the context. However, context awareness for pervasive applications
introduces new challenges for ensuring that the desired
user experience is achieved. The hardware and software of the
devices vary so many that it is difficult to achieve portability
feature across platforms. Hence the current trend in developing
interoperable applications is to use web technology instead of
platform-specific APIs.