Factors Influencing Quality of Mobile Apps:Role of Mobile App Development Life Cycle

TL;DR

This paper examines factors affecting mobile app quality, highlights common causes of app failure, and demonstrates the development of a mobile app using a traditional software development life cycle with UML and M-UML.

Contribution

It integrates crucial failure factors into a structured development approach and proposes using standard development phases to improve app success rates.

Findings

High failure rate due to lack of standard development processes

Development of a mobile app using traditional SDLC phases

Use of UML and M-UML in mobile app development

Abstract

In this paper, The mobile application field has been receiving astronomical attention from the past few years due to the growing number of mobile app downloads and withal due to the revenues being engendered .With the surge in the number of apps, the number of lamentable apps/failing apps has withal been growing.Interesting mobile app statistics are included in this paper which might avail the developers understand the concerns and merits of mobile apps.The authors have made an effort to integrate all the crucial factors that cause apps to fail which include negligence by the developers, technical issues, inadequate marketing efforts, and high prospects of the users/consumers.The paper provides suggestions to eschew failure of apps. As per the various surveys, the number of lamentable/failing apps is growing enormously, primarily because mobile app developers are not adopting a standard development life cycle for the development of apps. In this paper, we have developed a mobile application with the aid of traditional software development life cycle phases (Requirements, Design, Develop, Test, and, Maintenance) and we have used UML, M-UML, and mobile application development technologies.