Abstract
Popularity of mobile phones and huge growing for mobile applications make developers in need for flexible software process, which can deal with many challenges facing the mobile app development process. These challenges include: volatility of requirements, strong user involvement, development time tightness, process simplicity, and production of valuable software in low cost. This research study investigates the current mobile app development approaches adopted in Omani market and provides a comparison between existing methods. The results reveal that Agile approach is the most popular model for mobile software engineering in Omani, as it naturally fits most of the applications required in this market. The study also discusses various agile process models such as Scrum, XP, Lean, DSDM, and others. It is concluded that XP model is the most preferable model used by Omani developers due to its dynamic and adaptive nature for different mobile app processes. The study provides also a series of recommendations for mobile app developers which should help in selecting the most appropriate method that suits the targeted market sector
Highlights
Over the last decade, mobile phones play an important role in the economy and seem to be the future of the business [1 and 2]
Mobile applications or mobile app are evolving rapidly, many people are doing their activities through their mobile phones, and many companies are trying to build their application in mobile based, there is huge growing and competition in the mobile app market [2 and 3]
It is found that agile approaches are the best practice to be followed by the mobile apps developers as the findings show that agile approach is adopted in more than 50% of the mobile app under this study
Summary
Mobile phones play an important role in the economy and seem to be the future of the business [1 and 2]. Software engineering is the application of engineering principles to the software design, development and maintenance. Selecting appropriate software development methodology leads to rapid application delivery, cost reduction, and avoiding critical risks. It provides the developer with the best practices for producing software app that meet the real customer needs. Mobile app development process consists of five phases; namely: initiation to understand requirements, design, development, acceptance for final release, and support which includes training, maintenance, and upgrade [8]. It is a critical task to control and manage the software process in order to ensure that the produced software app comprises of high degree of integrity, quality, as well as user satisfaction
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