Analysis of Marketed versus Not-marketed Mobile App Releases

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nayebi, Maleknaz, Farrahi, Homayoon, Ruhe, Guenther
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866913361761927168
author Nayebi, Maleknaz
Farrahi, Homayoon
Ruhe, Guenther
author_facet Nayebi, Maleknaz
Farrahi, Homayoon
Ruhe, Guenther
contents Market and user characteristics of mobile apps make their release management different from proprietary software products and web services. Despite the wealth of information regarding users' feedback on 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.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2405_15752
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Analysis of Marketed versus Not-marketed Mobile App Releases
Nayebi, Maleknaz
Farrahi, Homayoon
Ruhe, Guenther
Software Engineering
Market and user characteristics of mobile apps make their release management different from proprietary software products and web services. Despite the wealth of information regarding users' feedback on 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.
title Analysis of Marketed versus Not-marketed Mobile App Releases
topic Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15752