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Analysis of marketed versus not-marketed mobile app releases

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Maleknaz Nayebi,

Homayoon Farrahi,

Guenther RuheAuthors Info & Claims

RELENG 2016: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Release Engineering

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2993274.2993281

Published: 18 November 2016 Publication History

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Market and user characteristics of mobile apps make their release managements different from proprietary software products and web services. Despite the wealth of information regarding users' feedback of an app, an in-depth analysis of app releases is difficult due to the inconsistency and uncertainty of the information. To better understand and potentially improve app release processes, we analyze major, minor and patch releases for releases following semantic versioning. In particular, we were interested in finding out the difference between marketed and not-marketed releases. Our results show that, in general, major, minor and patch releases have significant differences in the release cycle duration, nature and change velocity. We also observed that there is a significant difference between marketed and non-marketed mobile app releases in terms of cycle duration, nature and the extent of changes, and the number of opened and closed issues.

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Analysis of marketed versus not-marketed mobile app releases
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management

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