Developers' Eyes on the Changes of Apps: An Exploratory Study on App Changelogs

2019 IEEE 27th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI:10.1109/REW.2019.00042

Chong Wang, Ju Li, Peng Liang, M. Daneva, M. V. Sinderen

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Release planning for mobile apps has only recently become an area of active research. As a result, little is known about the types of requirements that app developers pay the most attention to when releasing an app. This research uses the changelogs of apps to shed light on this. We report the results of an exploratory study in which we analyzed the requirements that dominate the changes of apps, according to a set of 3000 changelogs collected from 120 apps from three categories in the Apple App Store: Travel, Social networking, and Books. We analyzed the changelogs in terms of functional and non-functional requirements, from a developers' perspective. Our results suggest that developers' releases are by far more concerned with non-functional requirements than with functional requirements. We also found that usability and maintainability are the most frequently mentioned non-functional requirements (NFRs) in the changelogs. Surprisingly, reliability requirements formed only a fraction of the total number of NFRs addressed in all changelogs of apps in the three selected App Store categories.

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开发者对应用变化的关注:基于应用变化日志的探索性研究

手机应用的发布计划直到最近才成为一个活跃的研究领域。因此，我们对应用开发者在发布应用时最关注的需求类型知之甚少。本研究使用应用的变更记录来阐明这一点。我们报告了一项探索性研究的结果，根据从苹果应用商店中三个类别(旅游、社交网络和图书)的120个应用中收集的3000个更新日志，我们分析了主导应用程序更改的需求。我们从开发人员的角度，从功能性和非功能性需求的角度分析了变更日志。我们的结果表明，到目前为止，开发人员发布的版本更多地关注非功能性需求，而不是功能性需求。我们还发现，可用性和可维护性是变更日志中最常提到的非功能需求(nfr)。令人惊讶的是，在三个选定的App Store类别的应用程序的所有变更日志中，可靠性要求只占NFRs总数的一小部分。

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