App Store Analysis studies information about applications obtained from app stores. App
stores provide a wealth of information derived from users that would not exist had the …

Besides a git-based version control system, GitHub integrates several social coding
features. Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or …

Software popularity is a valuable information to modern open source developers, who
constantly want to know if their systems are attracting new users, if new releases are gaining …

In recent years there has been a noticeable shift in attention from those who use agile
software development toward lean software development, often labelled as a shift “from …

GitHub is the largest source code repository in the world. It provides a git-based source code
management platform and also many features inspired by social networks. For example …

Nowadays, Android represents the most popular mobile platform with a market share of
around 80%. Previous research showed that data contained in user reviews and code …

App reviews in app stores offer valuable insights into many activities in the software
ecosystem, eg, software development, app marketing, security. As app reviews are known to …

Software testing is an important phase in the software development lifecycle because it
helps in identifying bugs in a software system before it is shipped into the hand of its end …

App quality impacts user experience and satisfaction. As a consequence, both app ratings
and user feedback reported in app reviews are directly influenced by the user‐perceived …

The effort invested in software development should ideally be devoted to the implementation
of new features. But some of the effort is invariably also invested in corrective maintenance …