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How do Android operating system updates impact apps?

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Austin Moninger,

Meiru CheAuthors Info & Claims

MOBILESoft '18: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

Pages 156 - 160

https://doi.org/10.1145/3197231.3197258

Published: 27 May 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Mobile devices are practically ubiquitous in today's society. People are increasingly dependent on mobile devices, for uses such as computation, navigation, storing private information, and web browsing among others. Thus, developers are required to produce high quality mobile apps. However, mobile operating systems are frequently updated, which can affect the functionality of mobile apps and hinder developers' ability to consistently provide high quality apps across multiple operating systems versions. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for automatically locating the part of Android apps that have been affected by an update of the underlying Android mobile operating system, and statistically analyzing the impact of the update. Preliminary evaluation shows that the overall impact of an operating system update is low.

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How do Android operating system updates impact apps?
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Ubiquitous and mobile devices
      1. Mobile devices
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software evolution
    2. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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