Mobile computing has fast emerged as a pervasive technology to replace the old computing paradigms with portable computation and context-aware communication. Existing software systems can be migrated (while preserving their data and logic) to mobile computing platforms that support portability, context-sensitivity, and enhanced usability. In recent years, some research and development efforts have focused on a systematic migration of existing software systems to mobile computing platforms.

To investigate the research state-of-the-art on the migration of existing software systems to mobile computing platforms. We aim to analyze the progression and impacts of existing research, highlight challenges and solutions that reflect dimensions of emerging and futuristic research.

We followed evidence-based software engineering (EBSE) method to conduct a systematic mapping study (SMS) of the existing research that has progressed over more than a decade (25 studies published from 1996–2017). We have derived a taxonomical classification and a holistic mapping of the existing research to investigate its progress, impacts, and potential areas of futuristic research and development.

The SMS has identified three types of migration namely Static, Dynamic, and State-based Migration of existing software systems to mobile computing platforms. Migration to mobile computing platforms enables existing software systems to achieve portability, context-sensitivity,and high connectivity. However, mobile systems may face some challenges such as resource poverty, data security, and privacy. The emerging and futuristic research aims to support patterns and tool support to automate the migration process. The results of this SMS can benefit researchers and practitioners-by highlighting challenges, solutions, and tools, etc., -to conceptualize the state-of-the-art and futuristic trends that support migration of existing software to mobile computing.

移动计算已迅速成为一种普及技术，用便携式计算和上下文感知通信来代替旧的计算范例。可以将现有软件系统（同时保留其数据和逻辑）迁移到支持可移植性，上下文敏感性和增强的可用性的移动计算平台。近年来，一些研究和开发工作集中在现有软件系统到移动计算平台的系统迁移上。

研究现有软件系统向移动计算平台的迁移的最新技术研究。我们旨在分析现有研究的进展和影响，重点介绍反映新兴和未来研究范围的挑战和解决方案。

我们遵循基于证据的软件工程（EBSE）方法，对已有十多年发展的现有研究进行了系统制图研究（SMS）（1996年至2017年发表了25项研究）。我们得出了现有研究的分类学分类和整体映射，以研究其进展，影响以及未来研究和开发的潜在领域。

SMS已确定了三种迁移类型，即从现有软件系统到移动计算平台的静态，动态和基于状态的迁移。迁移到移动计算平台使现有软件系统能够实现可移植性，上下文敏感性和高连接性。但是，移动系统可能会面临一些挑战，例如资源匮乏，数据安全和隐私。新兴的和未来的研究旨在支持模式和工具支持，以实现迁移过程的自动化。该SMS的结果通过突出挑战，解决方案和工具等，可以使研究人员和从业人员受益，以概念化支持现有软件向移动计算迁移的最新技术和未来趋势。