SAMOA -- A Visual Software Analytics Platform for Mobile Applications

Author

Minelli, Roberto ; Lanza, Mario

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf., Univ. of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

fYear

2013

fDate

22-28 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

476

Lastpage

479

Abstract

Mobile applications, also known as apps, are dedicated software systems that run on handheld devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers. The apps business has in a few years turned into a multi-billion dollar market. From a software engineering perspective apps represent a new phenomenon, and there is a need for tools and techniques to analyze apps. We present SAMOA, a visual web-based software analytics platform for mobile applications. It mines software repositories of apps and uses a set of visualization techniques to present the mined data. We describe SAMOA, detail the analyses it supports, and describe a methodology to understand apps from a structural and historical perspective. The website of SAMOA, containing the screen cast of the tool demo, is located at http://samoa.inf.usi.ch/about.

Keywords

Internet; data visualisation; mobile computing; SAMOA; dedicated software systems; handheld devices; mobile applications; multibillion dollar market; smartphones; software repositories; tablet computers; visual Web-based software analytics platform; visual software analytics platform; visualization techniques; Androids; Ecosystems; History; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Software; Visualization; apps; mobile applications; samoa; software evolution; software visualization; tool demo;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2013 29th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Eindhoven

ISSN

1063-6773

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2013.76

Filename

6676936