Context: From Birth to Design

Developers should consider contexts and their features carefully because they influence artifacts generated during the context-aware system development process. This paper is about context, its features, and their influence on the development. We introduce the definition context and its related concepts in measurable terms, and the features of context from the perspective of software development. Furthermore, we also introduce how context features influence requirement elicitation and context modeling, and how context modeling influence software architecture and system design. Our study will help context-aware system developers to reduce trial and errors by introducing issues to be considered during the development process.