Mobile application testing in industrial contexts: an exploratory multiple case-study
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posted on 2024-06-06, 11:53authored byS Zein, N Salleh, J Grundy
Recent empirical studies in the area of mobile application testing indicate the need for specific testing techniques and methods for mobile applications. This is due to mobile applications being significantly different than traditional web and desktop applications, particularly in terms of the physical constraints of mobile devices and the very different features of their operating systems. In this paper, we presented a multiple case-study involving four software development companies in the area of mobile and smartphones application. We aimed to identify testing techniques currently being applied by developers and challenges that they are facing. Our principle results are that many industrial teams seem to lack sufficient knowledge on how to test mobile applications, particularly in the areas of mobile application life-cycle conformance, context-awareness, and integration testing. We also found that there is no formal testing approach or methodology that can facilitate a development team to systematically test a critical mobile application.
History
Volume
532
Chapter number
3
Pagination
30-41
ISSN
1865-0929
ISBN-13
9783319226897
Language
eng
Notes
This chapter is also part of the 14th international conference, SoMeT 2015, Naples, Italy, 15-17 Sep. 2015
Publication classification
B Book chapter, B1.1 Book chapter
Copyright notice
2015, Springer
Extent
48
Editor/Contributor(s)
Fujita H, Guizzi G
Publisher
Springer
Place of publication
Berlin, Germany
Title of book
Intelligent software methodologies, tools and techniques
Series
Communications in computer and information science