Role of CI Adoption in Mobile App Success: An Empirical Study of Open-Source Android Projects
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Mobile apps face strong pressure for fast and reliable updates. Continuous Integration (CI) helps automate builds, tests, and releases, but its impact on mobile development remains underexplored. Despite the widespread use of CI, little is known about how it affects development activity, release speed, and user-facing outcomes in mobile projects. Existing studies mostly focus on CI adoption in general-purpose software, providing limited insight into mobile-specific dynamics, such as app store visibility and user engagement. In this paper, we analyze open-source Android apps to (1) compare CI adopters and non-adopters, (2) characterize adoption patterns using activity and bug metrics, and (3) assess pre/post adoption changes and user-facing outcomes. We observe that CI adopters are larger and more active, with faster and more regular releases. CI adoption is concentrated in integration- and reliability-intensive categories (e.g., finance and productivity) and is associated with higher Google Play Store engagement (more downloads and reviews) without lower ratings. Overall, CI adoption aligns with practices that support sustained delivery, higher project visibility, and stronger user engagement in mobile ecosystems.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
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14:10 10mTalk | Modeling Sampling Workflows for Code Repositories Technical Papers Romain Lefeuvre University of Rennes, Maiwenn Le Goasteller University of Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, Jessie Galasso-Carbonnel McGill University, Benoit Combemale University of Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, Quentin Perez INSA Rennes, Houari Sahraoui DIRO, Université de Montréal | ||
14:20 10mTalk | Quantifying Competitive Relationships Among Open-Source Software Projects Technical Papers Yuki Takei Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Toshiaki Aoki JAIST, Chaiyong Rakhitwetsagul Mahidol University, Thailand Pre-print | ||
14:30 10mTalk | Role of CI Adoption in Mobile App Success: An Empirical Study of Open-Source Android Projects Technical Papers xiaoxin zhou University of Toronto, Taher A. Ghaleb Trent University, Safwat Hassan University of Toronto Pre-print | ||
14:40 10mTalk | ML in a Box: Analyzing Containerization Practices in Open Source ML Projects Technical Papers Faten Jebari Grand Valley State University, Emna Ksontini University of North Carolina Wilmington, Amine Barrak Oakland University, USA, Wael Kessentini DePaul University | ||
14:50 10mTalk | An Empirical Study of Policy as Code: Adoption, Purpose, and Maintenance Technical Papers Ruben Opdebeeck Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Mahmoud Alfadel University of Calgary, Akond Rahman Auburn University, Yutaro Kashiwa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, João F. Ferreira Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto & INESC-ID, Raula Gaikovina Kula The University of Osaka, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pre-print | ||
15:00 10mTalk | Tracing Stereotypes in Pre-trained Transformers: From Biased Neurons to Fairer Models Technical Papers Gianmario Voria University of Salerno, Moses Openja Polytechnique Montreal, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal, Gemma Catolino University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno Pre-print | ||
15:10 5mIndustry talk | Can Data Mining Help to Survive the Annual Compiler Upgrade? Industry Track Gunnar Kudrjavets Amazon Web Services, USA, Aditya Kumar Google, Piotr Przymus Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland Pre-print | ||
15:15 5mTalk | Underutilization in Research GPU Clusters: SE Challenges Industry Track Krzysztof Kaczmarski Warsaw University of Technology, Jakub Narębski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Piotr Przymus Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland | ||