PRADA Applicability in Industrial Practice
This addresses the device fragmentation problem for mobile app developers, but the work is incremental as it focuses on applicability rather than new method development.
The study evaluated the applicability of PRADA, a method for prioritizing Android devices for mobile app development, through surveys in two IT companies, finding that it attracted interest from industrial Android developers.
The proliferation of Android devices brings the fragmentation problem. Selecting and prioritizing major device models are critical for mobile app developers to select testbeds and optimize various issues such as quality-assurance, release planning, revenues, and so on. PRADA, an approach proposed in our previous work, was designed to help prioritizing Android devices for apps. In this paper, we conduct a survey in two IT companies to study the applicability of PRADA. Results from the survey show that PRADA has attracted the interests of industrial Android developers.