“Topics of concern: identifying user issues in reviews of IoT apps and devices” by Andrew Truelove, Farah Naz Chowdhury, Omprakash Gnawali, and Mohammad Amin Alipour. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering Research & Practices for the Internet of Things (SERP4IoT 2019), May 2019.
Internet of Things (IoT) systems are bundles of networked sensors and actuators that are deployed in an environment and act upon the sensory data that they receive. These systems, especially consumer electronics, have two main cooperating components: a device and a mobile app. The unique combination of hardware and software in IoT systems presents challenges that are lesser known to mainstream software developers. They might require innovative solutions to support the development and integration of such systems. In this paper, we analyze more than 90,000 reviews of ten IoT devices and their corresponding apps and extract the issues that users encountered while using these systems. Our results indicate that issues with connectivity, timing, and updates are particularly prevalent in the reviews. Our results call for a new software-hardware development framework to assist the development of reliable IoT systems.
BibTeX entry:
@inproceedings{iotconcern-serpiot2019,
author = {Andrew Truelove and Farah Naz Chowdhury and Omprakash Gnawali
and Mohammad Amin Alipour},
title = {{Topics of concern: identifying user issues in reviews of IoT
apps and devices}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on
Software Engineering Research & Practices for the Internet of
Things (SERP4IoT 2019)},
month = may,
year = {2019}
}