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 …

The purpose of this study is to perform a synthesis of API research. The study took stock of
literature from academic journals on APIs with their associated themes, frameworks …

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 …

Background Mobile health (mHealth) has the potential to improve access to healthcare,
especially in developing countries. The proliferation of mHealth has not been accompanied …

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 …

With the popularity of smartphones and mobile devices, mobile application (aka “app”)
markets have been growing exponentially in terms of number of users and downloads. App …

The popularity of mobile devices has been steadily growing in recent years. These devices
heavily depend on software from the underlying operating systems to the applications they …

Change introduces conflict into software ecosystems: breaking changes may ripple through
the ecosystem and trigger rework for users of a package, but often developers can invest …

Open source is experiencing a renaissance period, due to the appearance of modern
platforms and workflows for developing and maintaining public code. As a result, developers …

Third-party libraries in Android apps have repeatedly been shown to be hazards to the
users' privacy and an amplification of their host apps' attack surface. A particularly …