Software Engineering Report: Cloud Computing for Mobile Apps

This report provides a comprehensive review of a journal article focusing on cloud computing for emerging mobile cloud applications. The study explores the concepts and architecture of cloud computing, emphasizing its significance in mobile app design and development. It examines the methodologies used, including qualitative research design, literature reviews, and case studies, to analyze the importance of cloud computing and mobile cloud applications. The findings highlight the role of cloud computing in enhancing mobile app design and the best practices to mitigate associated risks. Furthermore, the report discusses the challenges, particularly security and privacy issues, faced by cloud-based applications. The results emphasize the crucial role of security management in cloud computing to prevent cyberattacks and data breaches. The report concludes by underscoring the relevance of cloud computing approaches and software applications to engineering methodologies, offering insights into cloud-based services, mobile app design, and the importance of security in this evolving technological landscape. This report is a contribution to the Desklib platform, offering valuable insights for students studying software engineering.

Cloud Computing for Emerging Mobile
Cloud Apps

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Introduction
Cloud computing is an advanced communication technology which is now used in the area of
mobile applications. In this report, a journal article will be discussed and reviewed that is
cloud computing for emerging mobile cloud applications. Mainly, it focuses on the role of
cloud computing in emerging mobile applications and identifies the features of mobile
application design in cloud computing. The key purpose of this report is to provide key
aspects of cloud computing and their significance in the area of mobile applications. The
basic outline of this research study involves the main five sections, for example, the intention
of the article, research methodologies, findings of the paper, issues discussed by authors and
results of the paper.
Intention and content of the article
In this journal paper, the researchers explained the concept of cloud computing technology
and also discussed the cloud software architecture. According to the authors, cloud
computing is the best approach to store data or information and help mobile devices for
exchanging information over computer networks [1]. In this modern era, the use of cloud
computing is growing very fast and also plays a key role in the field of mobile applications.
The results of the journal paper will deliver a platform for understanding the principle of
cloud computing and their importance for designing mobile applications tools. For improving
the effectiveness of the paper the authors divided the session into several sections such as the
background of cloud computing, mobile cloud computing services, security and privacy
issues in cloud computing and future of cloud-based services.
As per the research paper, Mehdi Bahrami indicated cloud computing techniques along with
their architecture at the SCSE conference. This tutorial is completely based on cloud
computing and provided a case study on mobile applications and their designing process. It is
observed that this tutorial will compare the specification and architecture of traditional
models and mobile cloud computing. The objective of this paper is to provide a viewpoint of
start-up mobile applications organizations and describe the working principle of cloud
computing. Moreover, it is analysed that security is one of the common issue linked with
cloud computing where hackers obtain the personal information of users. In order to
understand the security problems related to cloud computing and mobile applications, the

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authors added the viewpoints of other authors and analysed results of previous research
studies [2].
However, the authors also designed a timeline for conducting the research in an effective
manner. This tutorial timeline involved several key factors, for example, introduction, cloud
computing and general services, mobile cloud services for smartphones, the case study of
applications in cloud computing, the basic practice of migration to the mobile technology and
conclusion of the study [3]. According to the researchers, for better understanding about
cloud computing, there are several case studies will be involved and these studies will
represent cloud vendors and users as best practises in the field of cloud computing. In the
section of cloud computing, the authors critically analyse the definition and importance of
cloud-based services along with their key aspects in terms of availability.
Research methodologies
The research methodology is a kind of process which provides a platform to the authors in
order to improve the quality of the information and achieve aims or objectives of the paper
[4]. After analysing the research paper it has found that the authors used various kinds of
research methods, for example, research design, case study, observation, research strategy,
data collection methods, data analysing approach and so on. The purpose of these research
methods is to analyse the viewpoints of other researchers and enhance the effectiveness of the
examination by obtaining more information [5]. Therefore by using such kind of research
methodologies the investigators analysed the importance of cloud computing and mobile
cloud applications.
Research design
In this examination, the authors used a qualitative research design which is based on the
theoretical frameworks about the research topic. It is identified that the qualitative research
design allows information and facts about the research topic and the authors used this design
because they provided only theoretical information about cloud computing [6]. The
researchers also maintained the quality of information with the help of this research design
because it provided enough information about cloud computing.
Research strategy
There are various kinds of strategies used by the researchers for successfully achieving
objectives of the paper such as qualitative design, data collection methods, literature review,

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case studies and observation process [7]. In order to obtain fresh information about cloud
computing the authors also added several case studies and analysed the viewpoints of other
researchers. Secondary data obtained from the literature review and previous journal papers
and also highlighted the results of recent journal articles. The authors also adopted Microsoft
word for producing a report of this research study and used data analysing software for
analysing both primary and secondary data about cloud computing.
Data collection methods
After analysing this journal paper it is identified that the authors adopted both primary and
secondary kinds of data collection techniques. Moreover, the primary technique provided
fresh information about the research topic but secondary approach provided data and
information which are used in previous investigations. For obtaining primary facts and data
several case studies and observation were used by the researchers and analysed the
significance of cloud computing technology [8]. The secondary data about mobile cloud
application obtained from various sources, for example, journal papers, literature review,
online websites and books. Therefore by using both data collection methods the researchers
reduced the drawback of previous studies and enhanced the level of quality.
Data analysing method
The data analysing process provide a way to the researchers for gaining the effective aspects
of cloud computing. In this journal article, the authors used a statistical analysis method that
has the potential for evaluating both primary and secondary data about cloud computing. The
researchers avoided the content analysis process because they obtained both theoretical and
numerical data about research title for which content analysis does not analyse both statistics
and information. Therefore, with the help of all these research methods, the investigators
gained an effective conclusion and avoided research gaps between facts and research topic.
Findings
This paper found that cloud computing is an emerging technology which is used for
designing applications for mobile devices. It is identified that there are various companies
that provide cloud services to their users such as Amazon, Microsoft Windows, and Google
[9]. This journal paper shows the importance of cloud computing in mobile applications and
highlighted the best practices to reduce risks linked with cloud computing.

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Problems highlighted by the researchers
After evaluating the research paper it is analysed that the researchers highlighted security and
privacy issues faced by cloud computing. The authors reported that security is a common
problem with cloud computing which impacts on the performance of mobile cloud
applications [10]. Moreover, it is a difficulty for designing cloud-based application on mobile
devices because it requires more intention towards the information technology. These issues
and problem are highlighted by the authors and also analysed the risk factors linked with
cloud computing technology.
Results and discussion
The results of this investigation show that cloud computing plays an important character for
emerging mobile cloud applications where this technology design cloud systems in mobiles.
This journal paper critically reviewed cloud computing and also discussed the security or
privacy issues linked with mobile cloud applications. From this paper, it is analysed that it is
very important to control and manage the security-related issues in the case of cloud
computing because lack of security can lead to cyber-attacks and data breach. In future
research, the authors will provide a complete tutorial for cloud computing and discuss the
security issues along with prevention techniques.
Conclusion of the article and relevancy
This journal article explained the concept of mobile computing and key aspects of cloud
computing in the field of mobile applications. Moreover, the authors also examined the
significance of mobile computing architecture in the area of application design and
development process. The researchers reduced the drawbacks of previous studies by
conducting a literature section and included opinions of other researchers. This paper is
related to the topic of this unit because the authors described cloud computing approaches
and software applications which are relevant to the engineering methodologies.
Conclusion
This report is based on cloud computing and mobile cloud applications and the journal paper
provided an in-depth analysis of cloud-based services. From the above analysis, it is
concluded that the architecture of cloud computing helps developers in designing mobile
applications. This report reviewed and evaluated a journal paper and identified the intention

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of the paper. Moreover, research methods, findings and results were also described in this
report for better understanding of key points of a research paper.

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