Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Volume 47, Issue 2, Pages 300-319Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2019.2891715
Keywords
Software engineering; Software; Interviews; Data mining; Testing; Data collection; Business; Empirical software engineering; mobile app development; app store analysis
Funding
- EPSRC [EP/J017515/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This paper investigates the impact of app stores on software engineering tasks from the developers' perspective, revealing effects on bridging the gap between developers and users, increasing market transparency, and influencing mobile release management through developer interviews and questionnaires. These findings have implications for testing, requirements engineering, and mining software repositories research fields, guiding future research in supporting mobile app developers through a deeper understanding of the app store-developer interaction.
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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