Quality issues

You can use the Clusters feature to identify the key issues (both positive and negative) that affect most of your users. This feature also helps you to track user responses after you release a new build to fix issues or introduce new features. The Top clusters feature helps you to quickly gain insight into the issues that have the most recent and significant effect on users' perception of app quality. You can use the objective data that is gathered in both the Clusters and Top cluster features to help prioritize your development requirements.

Clusters

MobileFirst Quality Assurance analyzes all of the reviews that are submitted for a particular app and looks for commonalities within each review to find users who are talking about the same topics. For example, if many users are talking about your app crashing, those reviews are organized into a single cluster. After related reviews are identified, MobileFirst Quality Assurance organizes them into clusters. Detailed information is provided for each cluster:
  • How many reviews the cluster is composed of.
  • The date range of the included reviews.
  • The average star rating for all of the reviews within the cluster.
Clusters help you to quickly pinpoint which aspects of your app customers are happy with and which areas are disappointing them.

To view a list of the clusters that are identified for your app, click the Clusters tab:

Clusters tab

What you can do with clusters Action
Show only the positive reviews within a cluster Click Filter to show positive reviews. Reviews are classified as positive if they have a 4 or 5 star rating.
Show only the negative reviews within a cluster Click Filter to show negative reviews. Reviews are classified as negative if they have a 1 or 2 star rating.
Search the review text within a cluster In the Search clusters field, enter the term that you want to search for within the cluster. For example, if you want to determine whether a new build that you released fixed an issue with your app crashing when it is running under iOS8, enter Crashing.

To scope your search results to a specific time period, specify a date range. For example, to return results for the last 7 days, click 7 days.

Show all of the reviews that are contained within a cluster Click a specific cluster to open a list of reviews for that cluster.

Top clusters

You can use the Top Clusters feature to identify which clusters currently have the most significant impact on the sentiment score for your app. This feature ranks issues to show the most recent and significant impact on your users' perception of app quality. This information alerts you to the following issues:
  • Negative issues that show that something is wrong with your app.
  • Positive issues that identify the aspects of your app that users are happy with.

To view the Top Clusters for your app, click the Dashboard tab:

Screen capture of top clusters

Cluster stats

You can use the Cluster Stats chart in the Dashboard tab to quickly view the volume and star ratings of analyzed reviews, and the total number of identified clusters.
Cluster Stats graph
The Cluster Stats chart helps you to see:
  • The volume of core issues that most of your users are talking about.
  • Whether most of these clusters are positive (4 and 5 star ratings) or negative (1 and 2 star ratings).
This information provides insight into the overall user sentiment for your app.