The evolution of mobile apps: an exploratory study
Jack Zhang, Shikhar Sagar, Emad Shihab · 2013
As mobile apps continue to grow in popularity, it is important to study their evolution. Lehman's laws of software evolution have been proposed and used to study the evolution of traditional, large software systems (also known as desktop apps). However, do Lehman's laws of software evolution hold for mobile apps?, especially since developing mobile apps presents different challenges compared to the development of desktop apps.