Title :
GROPG: A graphical on-phone debugger
Author :
Tuan Anh Nguyen ; Csallner, Christoph ; Tillmann, Nikolai
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Abstract :
Debugging mobile phone applications is hard, as current debugging techniques either require multiple computing devices or do not support graphical debugging. To address this problem we present GROPG, the first graphical on-phone debugger. We implement GROPG for Android and perform a preliminary evaluation on third-party applications. Our experiments suggest that GROPG can lower the overall debugging time of a comparable text-based on-phone debugger by up to 2/3.
Keywords :
graphical user interfaces; mobile computing; mobile handsets; operating systems (computers); program debugging; Android; GROPG; graphical debugging; graphical on-phone debugger; mobile phone applications debugging; multiple computing devices; text-based on-phone debugger; third-party applications; Debugging; Java; Random access memory; Smart phones; Standards; User interfaces; Mobile computing; debugging;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering (ICSE), 2013 35th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3073-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606675
