The works of Vilfredo Pareto and the power law that originally was meant to describe the uneven distribution of wealth in Italy, have turned out to be applicable to describe lots of other areas and fields. This thesis aims to investigate the Pareto principle in relation to software, mainly looking into websites and applications, and seeing how the usage of different features is spread among each other. The work was targeted towards four apps within the travel category to investigate if the Pareto principle is valid within those apps. A questionnaire was sent out to investigate the current state of knowledge about the Pareto principle by people within the software development industry. Then traffic from Malmö University’s website was analyzed and showed a likeness to the Pareto principle. Lastly, interviews were conducted to collect user data regarding the usage of features in four mobile applications. The data that were collected from the interviews showed that not a certain set of features stod for the majority of usage. In conclusion, we state that there may be some validity to using the Pareto principle to describe software usage, further work and more data collecting would be necessary to be certain. Being aware of the Pareto principle in relation to software development could help you with structuring your work and be more efficient when developing since putting resources such as time and money into features that would not be used would be resource poorly spent.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-52735 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Persson, Jakob, Nicklasson, Erik |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DVMT) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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