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API Change and Defect Proneness: A Threat to Success of Android Apps - FSE 2013 Online Appendix

This web page is a companion to our FSE 2013 submission entitled "API Change and Defect Proneness: A Threat to Success of Android Apps".

Data

Android apps list	HTML  CSV
Android APIs change and bug history	ZIP
Working data set for our R script	TXT

Results (Boxplots)

Bugs	PDF
Changes in exceptions (all methods)	PDF
Changes in exceptions (public methods)	PDF
Changes in methods	PDF
Changes in public methods	PDF
Changes in signatures (all methods)	PDF
Changes in signatures (public methods)	PDF
Distribution of ratings	PDF

Code/Scripts

• Java code for downloading APK files from Google Play: NetBeans project , Java files and libraries
• Script in R for replication purposes. The script uses this working data set

Tools

• Dex2Jar
• JClassInfo
• Android Market API
• R
• The Markos Project

Authors

• Mario Linares-Vásquez - The College of William and Mary, VA, USA.
  E-mail: mlinarev at wm dot edu
• Gabriele Bavota - University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy.
  Email: gbavota at unisannio dot it
• Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas - Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
  Email: cebernalc at unal dot edu dot co
• Massimiliano Di Penta - University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy.
  Email: dipenta at unisannio dot it
• Rocco Oliveto - University of Molise, Pesche (IS), Italy.
  E-mail: rocco.oliveto at unimol dot it
• Denys Poshyvanyk - The College of William and Mary.
  E-mail: denys at cs dot wm dot edu