Research on Agile Process Models in Mobile Application Maintenance

Together with the rapid development of mobile technology, mobile devices are not only playing a role as mobile phones in our daily lives, but a key to the world-wide social platform with versatile functionalities. Despite of tremendous profit, mobile applications, as the major providers of specific mobile services, are facing fierce competition under the background of mobile blooming. Demanding requirements from users and the constantly changing market trends are driving software companies to provide mobile applications with well-developed features and also continuously satisfactory quality. Therefore, the maintenance of mobile applications is increasingly vital to enable software companies to maintain both profits and reputation by providing constant perfection and enhancement for their products. To provide a more agile and efficient method in guiding mobile application maintenance practice is the main goal of the work in this thesis. In this thesis, the author provides a general description of the agile process of mobile application maintenance. Details are presented concerning maintenance analysis in agile mobile application maintenance as well. Based on data collection and case studies, three maintenance models are proposed including relevant guidelines in order to provide a better way of planning agile maintenance. Other related issues are further discussed as well.