Fresh apps: an empirical study of frequently-updated mobile apps in the Google play store

S McIlroy, N Ali, AE Hassan - Empirical Software Engineering, 2016 - Springer
Mobile app stores provide a unique platform for developers to rapidly deploy new updates of
their apps. We studied the frequency of updates of 10,713 mobile apps (the top free 400 …

What are the characteristics of high-rated apps? a case study on free android applications

Y Tian, M Nagappan, D Lo… - 2015 IEEE international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The tremendous rate of growth in the mobile app market over the past few years has
attracted many developers to build mobile apps. However, while there is no shortage of …

The impact of api change-and fault-proneness on the user ratings of android apps

G Bavota, M Linares-Vasquez… - IEEE Transactions …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The mobile apps market is one of the fastest growing areas in the information technology. In
digging their market share, developers must pay attention to building robust and reliable …

Investigating the criticality of user‐reported issues through their relations with app rating

A Di Sorbo, G Grano, C Aaron Visaggio… - Journal of Software …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
App quality impacts user experience and satisfaction. As a consequence, both app ratings
and user feedback reported in app reviews are directly influenced by the user‐perceived …

Supporting evolution and maintenance of android apps

M Linares-Vásquez - Companion Proceedings of the 36th International …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, the market of mobile software applications (apps) has maintained an
impressive upward trajectory. As of today, the market for such devices features over 850K+ …