Authors: Israel J. Mojica Bram Adams Meiyappan Nagappan Steffen Dienst Thorsten Berger Ahmed E. Hassan
Venue: IEEESW IEEE Software, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 78-86, 2013
Year: 2013
Abstract: In less than five years, the number of mobile apps has grown exponentially, with more than 1 million available in the largest mobile app stores. One explanation for this growth could be the adoption of well-proven software engineering practices--in particular, software reuse despite the often conjectured lack of training among mobile app developers. A study of hundreds of thousands of Android apps across 30 different categories found substantial software reuse, indicating that while these apps benefit from increased productivity, they're also more dependent on the quality of the apps and libraries that they reuse.
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BibTeX:
@article{israelj.mojica2013alesosrima,
author = "Israel J. Mojica and Bram Adams and Meiyappan Nagappan and Steffen Dienst and Thorsten Berger and Ahmed E. Hassan",
title = "A large-scale empirical study on software reuse in mobile apps",
year = "2013",
pages = "78-86",
journal = "IEEE Software",
volume = "31",
number = "2"
}
Plain Text:
Israel J. Mojica, Bram Adams, Meiyappan Nagappan, Steffen Dienst, Thorsten Berger, and Ahmed E. Hassan, "A large-scale empirical study on software reuse in mobile apps," IEEE Software, pp. 78-86