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Towards the quality improvement of cross-platform mobile applications

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Matias Martinez,

Sylvain LecomteAuthors Info & Claims

MOBILESoft '17: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

Pages 184 - 188

https://doi.org/10.1109/MOBILESoft.2017.30

Published: 20 May 2017 Publication History

Abstract

During last ten years, the number of smartphones and mobile applications has been constantly growing. Android, iOS and Windows Mobile are three mobile platforms that cover almost all smartphones in the world in 2017. Developing a mobile app involves first to choose the platforms the app will run, and then to develop specific solutions (i.e., native apps) for each chosen platform using platform-related toolkits such as Android SDK. A cross-platform mobile application is an app that runs on two or more mobile platforms. Several frameworks have been proposed to simplify the development of cross-platform mobile applications and to reduce development and maintenance costs. They are called cross-platform mobile app development frameworks. However, to our knowledge, the life-cycle and the quality of cross-platforms mobile applications built using those frameworks have not been studied in depth. Our main goal is to first study the processes of development and maintenance of mobile applications built using cross-platform mobile app development frameworks, focusing particularly on the bug-fixing activity. Then, we aim at defining tools for automated repairing bugs from cross-platform mobile applications.

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Martinez MTilevich E(2019)Two datasets of questions and answers for studying the development of cross-platform mobile applications using Xamarin frameworkProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems10.5555/3340730.3340763(162-173)Online publication date: 25-May-2019
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3340496.3342759

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MOBILESoft '17: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

May 2017

253 pages

ISBN:9781538626696

Conference Chairs:
John Grundy
Deakin University Melbourne, Australia
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William G. J. Halfond
University of Southern California
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Barbora Buhnova
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
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Marco Autili
University of L'Aquila, Italy
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Henry Muccini
University of L'Aquila, Italy

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Zhang XFan LChen SSu YLi BBissyandé TKlein JBird CSarro F(2023)Scene-Driven Exploration and GUI Modeling for Android AppsProceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering10.1109/ASE56229.2023.00179(1251-1262)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ASE56229.2023.00179
Martinez MTilevich E(2019)Two datasets of questions and answers for studying the development of cross-platform mobile applications using Xamarin frameworkProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems10.5555/3340730.3340763(162-173)Online publication date: 25-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3340730.3340763
Coppola RArdito LTorchiano MSarro FNayebi M(2019)Characterizing the transition to Kotlin of Android apps: a study on F-Droid, Play Store, and GitHubProceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on App Market Analytics10.1145/3340496.3342759(8-14)Online publication date: 27-Aug-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3340496.3342759

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