Self-reported activities of Android developers

Luca Pascarella; Franz Xaver Geiger; Fabio Palomba; Dario Di Nucci; Ivano Malavolta; Alberto Bacchelli

doi:10.1145/3197231.3197251

Self-reported activities of Android developers

Luca Pascarella, Franz Xaver Geiger, Fabio Palomba, Dario Di Nucci, Ivano Malavolta, Alberto Bacchelli

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Abstract

To gain a deeper empirical understanding of how developers work on Android apps, we investigate self-reported activities of Android developers and to what extent these activities can be classified with machine learning techniques. To this aim, we firstly create a taxonomy of self-reported activities coming from the manual analysis of 5,000 commit messages from 8,280 Android apps. Then, we study the frequency of each category of self-reported activities identified in the taxonomy, and investigate the feasibility of an automated classification approach. Our findings can inform be used by both practitioners and researchers to take informed decisions or support other software engineering activities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2018 ACM/IEEE 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2018
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	ACM, IEEE Computer Society
Pages	144-155
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9781450357128
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3197231.3197251
Publication status	Published - 27 May 2018
Event	5th ACM/IEEE 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2018, collocated with the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018 - Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 27 May 2018 → 28 May 2018

Conference

Conference	5th ACM/IEEE 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2018, collocated with the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018
Country	Sweden
City	Gothenburg
Period	27/05/18 → 28/05/18

Keywords

Android
empirical study
mining software repositories

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Pascarella, L, Geiger, FX, Palomba, F, Di Nucci, D, Malavolta, I & Bacchelli, A 2018, Self-reported activities of Android developers. in Proceedings - 2018 ACM/IEEE 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2018. ACM, IEEE Computer Society, New York, NY, pp. 144-155, 5th ACM/IEEE 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2018, collocated with the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, 27/05/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3197231.3197251

Self-reported activities of Android developers. / Pascarella, Luca; Geiger, Franz Xaver; Palomba, Fabio; Di Nucci, Dario; Malavolta, Ivano; Bacchelli, Alberto.

Proceedings - 2018 ACM/IEEE 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2018. New York, NY : ACM, IEEE Computer Society, 2018. p. 144-155.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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