App Store Effects on Software Engineering Practices

In this paper, we study the app store as a phenomenon from the developers' perspective to investigate the extent to which app stores affect software engineering tasks. Through developer interviews and questionnaires, we uncover findings that highlight and quantify the effects of three high-leve...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 300 - 319
Main Authors: Al-Subaihin, Afnan A., Sarro, Federica, Black, Sue, Capra, Licia, Harman, Mark
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.02.2021
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects:
app store analysis
Applications programs
Business
Data collection
Data mining
Empirical software engineering
Interviews
mobile app development
Mobile computing
Software
Software engineering
Testing
ISSN:0098-5589, 1939-3520
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Summary:In this paper, we study the app store as a phenomenon from the developers' perspective to investigate the extent to which app stores affect software engineering tasks. Through developer interviews and questionnaires, we uncover findings that highlight and quantify the effects of three high-level app store themes: bridging the gap between developers and users, increasing market transparency and affecting mobile release management. Our findings have implications for testing, requirements engineering and mining software repositories research fields. These findings can help guide future research in supporting mobile app developers through a deeper understanding of the app store-developer interaction.
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ISSN:0098-5589
1939-3520
DOI:10.1109/TSE.2019.2891715