How Maintainability Issues of Android Apps Evolve [ICSME 2018]

by Ivano Malavolta on September 28, 2018 with 0 comments Android, Empirical experiment, research, talks

It is quite a while since I am investigating how Android developers maintain their apps. Yesterday I presented a study about how maintainability issues of Android apps evolve at the 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2018).

The study uncovers the frequency and evolution of maintainability issues of Android apps. Its results show that:

Code duplication is the most recurrent maintainability issue, which is intrinsic in the Android programming model and can be mitigated by a more careful programming style (let’s discuss this!)
Notwithstanding the issue type, maintainability issue density grows until it stabilizes, but issues are seldom fully resolved, which represents an important hidden lack of quality
Maintainability hotspots are independent from the type of development activity, which means: whatever you do, your development style will matter

The full paper is available here and below you can find the slides of the talk.

Tags: Android, Maintainability

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ivano Malavolta

Ivano Malavolta is Associate Professor in the Software and Sustainability group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Director of the Network Institute @VU. His research focuses on data-driven software engineering, with a special emphasis on software architecture, mobile software development, robotics software. He applies empirical methods to evaluate methods and techniques in the field of software engineering. He authored several scientific articles in international journals and peer-reviewed international conferences proceedings. He is program committee member and reviewer of international conferences and journals in the software engineering field. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of L’Aquila in 2012. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, VERSEN, Amsterdam Young Academy, and Amsterdam Data Science.

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