Real challenges in mobile app development

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 15-24

  Joorabchi, Mona Erfani ^a   Mesbah, Ali ^a   Kruchten, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

mobile app development; mobile platforms; qualitative study

Indexed keywords

CURRENT PRACTICES; DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY; GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH; MOBILE APP; MOBILE PLATFORM; MULTIPLE PLATFORMS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

MOBILE DEVICES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84893334636     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2013.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (49)

1. "App Store Metrics," http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/.
2. "Smartphone Platform Market Share," http://www.comscore.com/ Insights/Press Releases/2013/3/comScore Reports January 2013 U.S. Smartphone Subscriber Market Share.
3. "Android Market Stats," http://www.appbrain.com/stats/.
4. "Windows Marketplace," http://windows-phone.co/tag/ windows-phone-Apps/.
5. "Blackberry AppWorld," http://drippler.com/rim/blackberry playbook lte#!295631.
6. Berg Insight, "The mobile application market," http://www.berginsight. com/ReportPDF/ProductSheet/bi-App1-ps.pdf.
7. J. Dehlinger and J. Dixon, "Mobile application software engineering: Challenges and research directions," in Proceedings of the Workshop on Mobile Software Engineering. Springer, 2011, pp. 29-32.
8. A. I. Wasserman, "Software engineering issues for mobile application development," in FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research, ser. FoSER'10. ACM, 2010, pp. 397-400.
9. E. Masi, G. Cantone, M. Mastrofini, G. Calavaro, and P. Subiaco, "Mobile apps development: A framework for technology decision making," in Proceedings of International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services., ser. MobiCASE'4, 2012, pp. 64-79.
10. "Native, web or hybrid mobile-App development," IBM Software, Thought Leadership White Paper. [Online]. Available: http://www.computerworld. com.au/whitepaper/371126/ native-web-or-hybrid-mobile-App-development/download
11. "Voice of the Next-Generation Mobile Developer, Appcelerator / IDC Q3 2012 Mobile Developer Report," http://www.appcelerator.com.s3. Amazonaws.com/pdf/Appcelerator-Report-Q3-2012-final.pdf.
12. B. Glaser and A. Strauss, The discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. Aldine Transaction, 1967.
13. S. Adolph, W. Hall, and P. Kruchten, "Using grounded theory to study the experience of software development," Empirical Softw. Engg., vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 487-513, 2011.
14. J. W. Creswell, Qualitative inquiry and research design: choosing among five approaches (2nd edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2007.
15. S. Adolph, P. Kruchten, and W. Hall, "Reconciling perspectives: A grounded theory of how people manage the process of software development," J. Syst. Softw., vol. 85, no. 6, pp. 1269-1286, 2012.
16. K. Karhu, T. Repo, O. Taipale, and K. Smolander, "Empirical observations on software testing automation," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation (ICST). IEEE Computer Society, 2009, pp. 201-209.
17. G. Coleman and R. O'Connor, "Investigating software process in practice: A grounded theory perspective," J. Syst. Softw., vol. 81, no. 5, pp. 772-784, 2008.
18. M. Greiler, A. van Deursen, and M.-A. Storey, "Test confessions: a study of testing practices for plug-in systems," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). IEEE Computer Society, 2012, pp. 244-254.
19. G. Coleman and R. O'Connor, "Using grounded theory to understand software process improvement: A study of Irish software product companies," Inf. Softw. Technol., vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 654-667, 2007.
20. M. Sulayman, C. Urquhart, E. Mendes, and S. Seidel, "Software process improvement success factors for small and medium web companies: A qualitative study," Inf. Softw. Technol., vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 479-500, 2012.
21. V. Kettunen, J. Kasurinen, O. Taipale, and K. Smolander, "A study on agility and testing processes in software organizations," in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA). ACM, 2010, pp. 231-240.
22. A. C. C. Franca, D. E. S. Carneiro, and F. Q. B. da Silva, "Towards an explanatory theory of motivation in software engineering: A qualitative case study of a small software company," 2012 26th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, vol. 0, pp. 61-70, 2012.
23. B. Glaser, Doing Grounded Theory: Issues and Discussions. Sociology Press, Mill Valley, California, 1998.
24. "Robotium," http://code.google.com/p/robotium/.
25. "MonkeyRunner," http://developer.android.com/tools/help/ monkeyrunner concepts.html.
26. "MonkeyTalk for iOS &Android," http://www.gorillalogic.com/ testing-tools/monkeytalk.
27. "KIF iOS Integration Testing Framework," https://github.com/ square/ KIF.
28. "SenTestingKit Framework," http://cocoadev.com/wiki/ SenTestingKit.
29. "About Instruments," https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/ #documentation/developertools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/ Introduction/Introduction.html.
30. "TestFlight," https://testflightapp.com/.
31. "Perfecto Mobile," http://www.perfectomobile.com/.
32. "DeviceAnywhere," http://www.keynotedeviceanywhere.com/.
33. P. Zhang and S. Elbaum, "Amplifying tests to validate exception handling code," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). IEEE Computer Society, 2012, pp. 595-605.
34. A. Onwuegbuzie and N. Leech, "Validity and qualitative research: An oxymoron?" Quality and Quantity, vol. 41, pp. 233-249, 2007.
35. Z. Hemel and E. Visser, "Declaratively programming the mobile web with Mobl," in Proceedings of Intl. Conf. on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications (OOPSLA). ACM, 2011, pp. 695-712.
36. M. Erfani Joorabchi and A. Mesbah, "Reverse engineering iOS mobile applications," in Proceedings of the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE). IEEE Computer Society, 2012, pp. 177-186.
37. C. Hu and I. Neamtiu, "Automating GUI testing for Android applications," in Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test, ser. AST '11. ACM, 2011, pp. 77-83.
38. W. Yang, M. R. Prasad, and T. Xie, "A grey-box approach for automated GUI-model generation of mobile applications," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE). Springer-Verlag, 2013, pp. 250-265.
39. A. Mesbah and M. R. Prasad, "Automated cross-browser compatibility testing," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). ACM, 2011, pp. 561-570.
40. M. Palmieri, I. Singh, and A. Cicchetti, "Comparison of cross-platform mobile development tools," in Intelligence in Next Generation Networks (ICIN), 2012 16th International Conference on, 2012, pp. 179-186.
41. M.-C. Forgue and D. Hazäel-Massieux, "Mobile web applications: bringing mobile apps and web together," in Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web, ser. WWW '12 Companion. ACM, 2012, pp. 255-258.
42. T. Paananen, "Smartphone Cross-Platform Frameworks," Bachelor's Thesis., 2011.
43. S. Diewald, L. Roalter, A. M̈oller, and M. Kranz, "Towards a holistic approach for mobile application development in intelligent environments," in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, ser. MUM '11. ACM, 2011, pp. 73-80.
44. Y.-W. Kao, C.-F. Lin, K.-A. Yang, and S.-M. Yuan, "A cross-platform runtime environment for mobile widget-based application," in Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC), 2011 International Conference on, 2011, pp. 68-71.
45. N. P. Huy and D. vanThanh, "Evaluation of mobile app paradigms," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, ser. MoMM. ACM, 2012, pp. 25-30.
46. S. P. Ng, T. Murnane, K. Reed, D. Grant, and T. Y. Chen, "A preliminary survey on software testing practices in Australia," in Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference. IEEE Computer Society, 2004, pp. 116-125.
47. D. Falessi, M. A. Babar, G. Cantone, and P. Kruchten, "Applying empirical software engineering to software architecture: challenges and lessons learned," Empirical Softw. Engg., vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 250-276, 2010.
48. J. Kasurinen, O. Taipale, and K. Smolander, "Software test automation in practice: empirical observations," Adv. Soft. Eng., vol. 2010, pp. 4:1-4:13, 2010.
49. K. Wiklund, S. Eldh, D. Sundmark, and K. Lundqvist, "Technical debt in test automation," in Proc. International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST). IEEE Computer Society, 2012, pp. 887-892.