Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

Mobile application usage and development is experiencing exponential growth. According to Gartner, by 2016 more than 300 billion applications will be downloaded annually. The mobile domain presents new challenges to software engineering. Mobile platforms are rapidly changing, including diverse capabilities as GPS, sensors, and input modes. Applications must be omni-channel and work on all platforms. Activated on mobile platforms, modern applications must be elastic and scale on demand according to the hardware abilities. Bring your own device (BYOD) policies introduce new challenges for security and management. Applications often need to support and use third-party services. Therefore, during development, security and authorization processes for the dataflow must be applied. Developing such applications requires suitable practices and tools e.g., architecture techniques that relate to the complexity at hand; improved refactoring tools for hybrid applications using dynamic languages and polyglot development; testing techniques for applications that run on different devices. This conference aims to establish a community of researchers and practitioners to share their work and lead further research into mobile software engineering. Among the goals for the conference are establishment of relationships to create a vibrant research community in the area of mobile software development and identification of the most important research problems for such an area.