Crowdsourcing User Reviews to Support the Evolution of Mobile Apps - JSS Online Appendix

This web page is a companion to our JSS submission entitled "Crowdsourcing User Reviews to Support the Evolution of Mobile Apps".


1. Data


Android apps

The list of apps used in our study is available as a CSV file. It includes the links to Google Play, issue trackers, and source code repositories

Data



2. CRISTAL

Overview of the CRISTAL approach

3. Results


Developers Background

Background of survey participants


RQ1: To what extent do developers fulfill reviews when working on a new app release?

Review coverage of the 70 apps
Review coverage of the 70 apps



RQ2: What is the effect of a crowd review mechanism (for planning and realizing future changes) on the app success?

Boxplots of avgerate ratio change for apps having different coverage levels. The red dot indicates the mean
Boxplots of avgerate ratio change for apps having different coverage levels. The red dot indicates the mean

F-Average Score vs Similarity Treshold

Raw data for the analysis

Threshold Analysis

*Authors

  • Fabio Palomba - University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy
    E-mail: fpalomba at uinisa dot it
  • Mario Linares-Vásquez - Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
    E-mail: m.linaresv at uniandes dot edu dot co
  • Gabriele Bavota - University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy.
    Email: gbavota at unisannio dot it
  • Rocco Oliveto - University of Molise, Pesche (IS), Italy.
    E-mail: rocco.oliveto at unimol dot it
  • Massimiliano Di Penta - University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy.
    Email: dipenta at unisannio dot it
  • Denys Poshyvanyk - The College of William and Mary, VA, USA
    E-mail: denys at cs dot wm dot edu
  • Andrea De Lucia - University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy
    E-mail: adelucia at uinisa dot it