Analysis of open source iOS apps

How smelly is the code and what about testing?

Kristiina Rahkema
Dev Genius
Published in
4 min readJun 7, 2020

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We analysed 273 open source iOS apps written in swift for 33 object oriented and 2 iOS specific code smells. We also looked at how well tested these apps were.

Where did we find open source apps?

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I’m an iOS developer with an interest in app security. I’m also a PhD student and junior researcher working on static analysis for mobile applications.