This is the title of the invited talk I will give at QA&TEST 2007, the 6th International Conference on Software QA and Testing on Embedded Systems 17-19 October – Bilbao, Spain.

The talk is based on a paper I had presented at ICSEA 2006, the International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, IEEE. However, the speech will extend the content presented in the paper and will present some additional thoughts I have had to address the optmization of dynamic memory management systems in the context of embedded real-time systems and software product families.

One of the outcomes is the journal paper, Software performance tuning of software product family architectures: two case studies in the real-time embedded systems domain, which extends the ICSEA paper by considering software product family architectures.

The MobiLife Book is the result of the European project MobiLife in which Nokia and many other European Universities and companies have contributed.

The books provides the architectural framework and a discussion on mobile services. During the project we had interesting applications and demo dealing with context-aware, mobility, multi-modal interfaces and privacy and trust. The paper presented at PIMRC 2007, which I have written with my colleagues at Nokia Rearch Center presents some of the challenges and opportunities in this domain experienced during the MobiLife project.