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JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE
卷 184, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2021.111136
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Mobile apps; COVID; Contact-tracing; User reviews; Software engineering; Software in society; Data mining
The study showed that most users are dissatisfied with contact-tracing apps, with major issues including high battery drainage and doubts on the effectiveness of the apps.
Context: More than 78 countries have developed COVID contact-tracing apps to limit the spread of coronavirus. However, many experts and scientists cast doubt on the effectiveness of those apps. For each app, a large number of reviews have been entered by end-users in app stores. Objective: Our goal is to gain insights into the user reviews of those apps, and to find out the main problems that users have reported. Our focus is to assess the software in society aspects of the apps, based on user reviews. Method: We selected nine European national apps for our analysis and used a commercial app-review analytics tool to extract and mine the user reviews. For all the apps combined, our dataset includes 39,425 user reviews. Results: Results show that users are generally dissatisfied with the nine apps under study, except the Scottish (Protect Scotland) app. Some of the major issues that users have complained about are high battery drainage and doubts on whether apps are really working. Conclusion: Our results show that more work is needed by the stakeholders behind the apps (e.g., app developers, decision-makers, public health experts) to improve the public adoption, software quality and public perception of these apps. (C) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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