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Quality Factors in Development Best Practices for Mobile Applications

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012 (ICCSA 2012)

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Smart mobile devices (hereafter, SMDs) are becoming pervasive and their applications have some particular attributes. Software Engineering deals with quality not only with traditional applications but also with process and product quality of this new application class. Models of software quality can aid to better understand the software characteristics that affect its quality. In this paper, we review some models of software quality factors, the best practices for SMD applications development proposed by UTI and W3C, and we discuss some of their relationships. We also discuss some deficiencies of the development best practices.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 31270-010, Brazil

    Euler Horta Marinho & Rodolfo Ferreira Resende

  2. Department of Exact and Applied Sciences, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, João Monlevade, Minas Gerais, 35931-008, Brazil

    Euler Horta Marinho

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  3. Department of Cyber Security Science, Federal University of Technology, Gidan Kwano Campus, Minna, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Sao Francisco Xavier, 524, 50. andar, sala 5145-F, Maracana, 20, 550-013, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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  6. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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  7. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, 813-8503, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

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Marinho, E.H., Resende, R.F. (2012). Quality Factors in Development Best Practices for Mobile Applications. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012. ICCSA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7336. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31128-4_47

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