In this paper, we study the app store as a phenomenon from the developers’ perspective to investigate the extent to which app stores affect software engineering tasks. Through developer interviews and questionnaires, we uncover findings that highlight and quantify the effects of three high-level app store themes: bridging the gap between developers and users, increasing market transparency and affecting mobile release management. Our findings have implications for testing, requirements engineering and mining software repositories research fields. These findings can help guide future research in supporting mobile app developers through a deeper understanding of the app store-developer interaction.

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App Store 对软件工程实践的影响

在本文中，我们从开发人员的角度将应用商店作为一种现象进行研究，以调查应用商店对软件工程任务的影响程度。通过开发者访谈和问卷调查，我们发现了突出和量化三个高级应用商店主题影响的发现：弥合开发者和用户之间的差距、提高市场透明度和影响移动发布管理。我们的发现对测试、需求工程和挖掘软件存储库研究领域具有重要意义。这些发现有助于指导未来的研究，通过更深入地了解应用商店与开发者的交互来支持移动应用开发者。