Research Trends and Open Issues in Mobile Application Software Engineering

摘要

Mobile development is becoming an increasingly critical area of software engineering as more users are integrating mobile devices into the fabric of their daily lives. As an evolving field, it is important to identify the research trends and challenges in order to assess if the open issues are receiving the requisite research and if any gaps exist. Some of the challenges involve improving user interfaces, software development processes, tools, and education programs. This paper presents the results of a literature review analysis that identified research work in mobile application software engineering and subsequently classified papers by topic to identify trends in relation to open issues. Results include an analysis into the distribution of 103 classified publications, to include identifying common research questions. It was discovered that progress is being made on some of the open challenges to mobile application software engineering.