Developers have to constantly improve their apps by fixing critical bugs and implementing the most desired features in order gain shares continuously increasing competitive market of mobile apps. A precious source information plan such activities is represented reviews left users on app store. However, exploit developers need manually analyze reviews. This something not doable if, as frequently happens, receives hundreds per day. In this paper we introduce CLAP (Crowd Listener for releAse...

Technical debt is a metaphor introduced by Cunningham to indicate "not quite right code which we postpone making it right". Examples of technical are smells and bug hazards. Several techniques have been proposed detect different types debt. Among those, Potdar Shihab defined heuristics instances self-admitted in comments, used them perform an empirical study on five software systems investigate the phenomenon. Still, very little known about diffusion evolution projects.

Purpose In this paper the authors aim to investigate importance of factors for adoption free/libre open source software (FLOSS) in public sector. They seek evaluate how different impact during initiation and implementation phases process. Design/methodology/approach The base methodological approach on two exploratory case studies with a contrasting result logic. build multi‐level framework grounded both literature review, feedback from stakeholders. then apply better frame findings. consider...

Refactoring and, in particular, remodularization operations can be performed to repair the design of a software system and remove erosion caused by evolution. Various approaches have been proposed support developers during system. Most these are based on underlying assumption that pursue an optimal balance between cohesion coupling when modularizing classes their systems. Thus, recommender proposes solution implicitly provides (near) such quality attributes. However, there is still no...

Code review is advocated as one of the best practices to improve software quality and reduce likelihood introducing defects during code change activities. Recent research has shown how components having a high coverage (i.e., proportion reviewed changes) tend be less involved in post-release fixing Yet relationship between bug introduction or overall still largely unexplored.

The market for mobile apps is getting bigger and bigger, it expected to be worth over 100 Billion dollars in 2020. To have a chance succeed such competitive environment, developers need build maintain high-quality apps, continuously astonishing their users with the coolest new features. Mobile app marketplaces allow release reviews. Despite reviews are aimed at recommending among users, they also contain precious information developers, reporting bugs suggesting exploit source of...

When knowledgeable colleagues are not available, developers resort to offline and online resources, e.g., tutorials, mailing lists, Q&A websites. These, however, need be found, read, understood, which takes its toll in terms of time mental energy. A more immediate accessible resource video tutorials found on the web, recent years have seen a steep increase popularity. Nonetheless, videos an intrinsically noisy data source, finding right piece information might even cumbersome than using...

Software development video tutorials have seen a steep increase in popularity recent years. Their main advantage is that they thoroughly illustrate how certain technologies, programming languages, etc. are to be used. However, come with caveat: there currently little support for searching and browsing their content. This makes it difficult quickly find the useful parts longer video, as only options watching entire leading wasted time, or fast-forwarding through it, missed information. We...

Microservices have emerged as an architectural style for developing distributed applications. Assessing the performance of architecture deployment configurations — e.g., with respect to alternatives is challenging and must be aligned system usage in production environment. In this paper, we introduce approach using operational profiles generate load tests automatically assess scalability pass/fail criteria microservice configuration alternatives. The provides a Domain-based metric each...

This paper investigates commonalities and differences between agile documentation-driven approaches in managing uncertainty requirement gathering. The research method is a survey collected interviewing sixteen project managers of Italian software companies, 8 using methods, methods. results show that document-driven companies consider different way the problem changing requirements related uncertainty; thus, they manage differently gathering relationship with customer

Disclosing personal data for a purpose not known by subjects is practice that the 2018 European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) supposed to prevent. This article gives an overview of major aspects GDPR related provision, use, and maintenance cloud services technologies.

Nowadays developers heavily rely on sources of informal documentation, including Q&A forums, slides, or video tutorials, the latter being particularly useful to provide introductory notions for a piece technology. The current practice is that have browse individually, which in case tutorials cumbersome, as they are lengthy and cannot be searched based their contents.

Text Retrieval (TR) approaches have been used to leverage the textual information contained in software artifacts address a multitude of engineering (SE) tasks. However, TR need be configured properly order lead good results. Current for automatic configuration SE configure single approach and then use it all possible queries. In this paper, we show that such strategy leads suboptimal results, propose QUEST, first bringing selection query level. QUEST recommends best given query, based on...

The microservices architectural style has gained widespread acceptance. However, designing applications according to this is still challenging. Common difficulties concern finding clear boundaries that guide decomposition while ensuring performance and scalability. With the aim of providing software architects engineers with a systematic methodology, we introduce novel actor-driven strategy complement domain-driven design overcome some its limitations by reaching finer modularization yet...