Title :
Using Combinatorial Approaches for Testing Mobile Applications
Author :
Vilkomir, Sergiy ; Amstutz, Brandi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC, USA
fDate :
March 31 2014-April 4 2014
Abstract :
Device-specific faults are very common for mobile software applications. To avoid such faults and guarantee the reliability and quality of mobile applications, sufficient testing is required on different mobile devices, which is expensive and time-consuming. This makes the task of the optimal selection of mobile devices for testing important and interesting from both practical and theoretical points of view. The suggested approach in this paper is based on combinatorial methods for coverage of each device characteristics. The initial results of the experimental investigation using comparisons with a random selection of devices are provided and show that the proposed approach is effective and promising.
Keywords :
mobile computing; program testing; software fault tolerance; software quality; combinatorial approach; device specific faults; mobile software applications testing; random mobile devices selection; software quality; software reliability; Androids; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Random access memory; Smart phones; Testing; combinatorial coverage; device-specific failures; mobile applications; testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW), 2014 IEEE Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cleveland, OH
DOI :
10.1109/ICSTW.2014.9