Software Engineering for OpenHarmony: A Research Roadmap

Dynamic Analysis; Machine Learning; Mobile; OpenHarmony; Software Engineering; Static Analysis; 'current; Dynamics analysis; Hot research topics; Machine-learning; Mobile platform; Mobile softwares; Openharmony; Research gaps; Research roadmap; Theoretical Computer Science; Computer Science (all)

Abstract :

[en] Mobile software engineering has been a hot research topic for decades. Our fellow researchers have proposed various approaches (with over 7,000 publications for Android alone) in this field that essentially contributed to the great success of the current mobile ecosystem. Existing research efforts mainly focus on popular mobile platforms, namely Android and iOS. OpenHarmony, a newly open sourced mobile platform, has rarely been considered, although it is the one requiring the most attention as OpenHarmony is expected to occupy one-third of the market in China (if not in the world). To fill the gap, we present to the mobile software engineering community a research roadmap for encouraging our fellow researchers to contribute promising approaches to OpenHarmony. Specifically, we start by presenting a tertiary study of mobile software engineering, attempting to understand what problems have been targeted by the mobile community and how they have been resolved. We then summarize the existing (limited) achievements of OpenHarmony and subsequently highlight the research gap between Android/iOS and OpenHarmony. This research gap eventually helps in forming the roadmap for conducting software engineering research for OpenHarmony.

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Computer science

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Li, Li ; Beihang University, Beijing, Beijing, China

Gao, Xiang ; School of Software, Beihang University, Beijing, Beijing, China

Sun, Hailong ; Beihang University, Beijing, Beijing, China

Hu, Chunming ; Beihang University, Beijing, Beijing, China

Sun, Carolyn ; The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Wang, Haoyu ; Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Cai, Haipeng ; Washington State University, Pullman, United States

Su, Ting ; Software Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing, shanghai, China

Luo, Xiapu ; Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

BISSYANDE, Tegawendé ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX

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English

Title :

Software Engineering for OpenHarmony: A Research Roadmap

Publication date :

08 September 2025

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ACM Computing Surveys

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0360-0300

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Association for Computing Machinery

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1-36

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3720538

Funders :

National Natural Science Foundation of China
Luxembourg National Research Fund
ARC Laureate Fellowship

Funding text :

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos (62141209, 61932007), by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), grant references 16344458 (REPROCESS) and 18154263 (UNLOCK). Grundy is supported by ARC Laureate Fellowship FL190100035.

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