Better Code for Better Apps: A Study on Source Code Quality and Market Success of Android Applications

2015 2nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems Pub Date : 2015-05-16 DOI:10.1109/MOBILESOFT.2015.10

Luis Corral, Ilenia Fronza

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Abstract

The quality of a mobile application is a major concern for developers, users and application stores. Even though several mobile-specific techniques have been proposed to evaluate the quality of a mobile software product, there is little evidence about their applicability as an efficient way to forecast a potential success of a mobile software product in a real app store. In this paper, we investigated the contribution of the code quality in the market success of Android apps in the Google Play store. We retrieved the source code of 100 Open Source mobile apps, we calculated a set of product metrics, and we obtained several market indicators from an application store. Utilizing statistical methods we determined whether there is a relationship between product quality and market success. The results obtained shown consistently that the quality of the source code has a marginal impact into the indices that describe the market success, suggesting that the real drivers of customer satisfaction and market penetration in the mobile app business go beyond purely source-oriented quality attributes.

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更好的代码创造更好的应用:Android应用的源代码质量与市场成功研究

手机应用的质量是开发者、用户和应用商店最关心的问题。尽管有人提出了几种针对移动设备的技术来评估移动软件产品的质量，但几乎没有证据表明它们可以作为预测移动软件产品在实际应用商店中潜在成功的有效方法。在本文中，我们调查了代码质量对Android应用在Google Play商店中的市场成功的贡献。我们检索了100个开源手机应用的源代码，我们计算了一组产品指标，我们从应用商店获得了几个市场指标。利用统计方法，我们确定了产品质量和市场成功之间是否存在关系。所获得的结果一致表明，源代码的质量对描述市场成功的指数具有边际影响，这表明移动应用业务中客户满意度和市场渗透率的真正驱动因素超出了纯粹以源代码为导向的质量属性。

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