How do Android operating system updates impact apps?

Mobile devices are practically ubiquitous in today's society. People are increasingly dependent on mobile devices, for uses such as computation, navigation, storing private information, and web browsing among others. Thus, developers are required to produce high quality mobile apps. However, mo...

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Published in:2018 IEEE ACM 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft) pp. 156 - 160
Main Authors: Yang, Guowei, Jones, Jeffrey, Moninger, Austin, Che, Meiru
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 27.05.2018
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Android
API
change impact analysis
Human-centered computing > Ubiquitous and mobile computing > Ubiquitous and mobile devices > Mobile devices
Libraries
mobile operating system
Smart phones
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software post-development issues > Software evolution
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software verification and validation > Software defect analysis > Software testing and debugging
Testing
API
mobile operating system
change impact analysis
Android
ISBN:9781450357128, 1450357121
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Summary:Mobile devices are practically ubiquitous in today's society. People are increasingly dependent on mobile devices, for uses such as computation, navigation, storing private information, and web browsing among others. Thus, developers are required to produce high quality mobile apps. However, mobile operating systems are frequently updated, which can affect the functionality of mobile apps and hinder developers' ability to consistently provide high quality apps across multiple operating systems versions. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for automatically locating the part of Android apps that have been affected by an update of the underlying Android mobile operating system, and statistically analyzing the impact of the update. Preliminary evaluation shows that the overall impact of an operating system update is low.
ISBN:9781450357128
1450357121
DOI:10.1145/3197231.3197258