A Microservice Architecture for Online Mobile App Optimization
This addresses a practical problem for mobile app developers and researchers by enabling better integration and reuse of optimization components, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing techniques.
The paper tackles the difficulty of reusing components from mobile app optimization techniques by introducing MAOMAO, a microservice-based reference architecture, which aims to improve adoption of existing techniques and facilitate the development of new ones.
A large number of techniques for analyzing and optimizing mobile apps have emerged in the past decade. However, those techniques' components are notoriously difficult to extract and reuse outside their original tools. This paper introduces MAOMAO, a microservice-based reference architecture for reusing and integrating such components. MAOMAO's twin goals are (1) adoption of available app optimization techniques in practice and (2) improved construction and evaluation of new techniques. The paper uses several existing app optimization techniques to illustrate both the motivation behind MAOMAO and its potential to fundamentally alter the landscape in this area.