Mining User Feedback For Software Engineering: Use Cases and Reference Architecture

Jacek Dabrowski, Emmanuel Letier, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi

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Abstract

App reviews can provide valuable information about user needs but analyzing them manually is challenging due to their large quantity and noisy nature. To overcome this problem, a variety of app review mining techniques have been proposed. So far, however, research in this area has paid little attention to the software engineering use cases of the mining techniques. This limits the understanding of their usefulness, applications and desired future developments. We address this problem by elaborating a reference model relating app review mining techniques to specific software engineering activities. In this paper, we present a unified description of software engineering use cases for mining app reviews and define a reference architecture realizing these use cases through a combination of natural language processing and data mining techniques. The use cases provide a novel systematic exposition of the envisioned applications and benefits of app review mining for software engineers. The reference architecture synthesises the diversity of research to realise these benefits and provide a general framework guiding the development and evaluation of future research and tools.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2022
EditorsEric Knauss, Gunter Mussbacher, Chetan Arora, Muneera Bano, Jean-Guy Schneider
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages114-126
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781665470001
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2022 - Virtual, Online, Australia
Duration: 15 Aug 202219 Aug 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering
Volume2022-August
ISSN (Print)1090-705X
ISSN (Electronic)2332-6441

Conference

Conference30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2022
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityVirtual, Online
Period15/08/2219/08/22

Keywords

  • Mining User Feedback
  • Reference Architecture
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Software Analytics
  • Software Engineering

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