An empirical study of API stability and adoption in the android ecosystem

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 70-79

  McDonnell, Tyler ^a   Ray, Baishakhi ^a   Kim, Miryung ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHING-UP; CLIENT APPLICATIONS; CO-EVOLUTION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HISTORY DATA; PROPAGATION TIME; SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEMS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; ECOSYSTEMS; ROBOTS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 84891682835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2013.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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