Testing Location-Based Function Services for Mobile Applications

Author

Aktouf, Oum-El-Kheir ; Tao Zhang ; Gao, Jerry ; Uehara, Tadahiro

Author_Institution

LCIS Lab., Grenoble Univ., Grenoble, France

fYear

2015

fDate

March 30 2015-April 3 2015

Firstpage

308

Lastpage

314

Abstract

Mobile testing is becoming an urgent and important research subject due to the explosive increase of mobile app downloads and mobile users. Now, location-based function services in mobile apps not only enhance mobile user experience, but also bring new challenges and issues in software testing. This paper focuses on location-based testing issues for mobile apps, and proposes a new testing model and method to address these needs. An application example for a popular location-based mobile app (Waze) and its case study results are reported based on SJSU Engineering Dpt. students´ mobile testing project experience.

Keywords

human factors; mobile computing; program testing; SJSU engineering department students; Waze; location-based function service testing; location-based function services; location-based mobile application; mobile application downloads; mobile applications; mobile testing project experience; mobile user experience enhancement; software testing; Context; Mobile computing; Mobile nodes; Mobile radio mobility management; Testing; Location-based test model; Mobile app; Mobile computing; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), 2015 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco Bay, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOSE.2015.17

Filename

7133546