Mobile application testing in industrial contexts: an exploratory multiple case-study
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 physi...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | iium-452982017-09-21T12:26:34Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/45298/ Mobile application testing in industrial contexts: an exploratory multiple case-study Zein, Samer Salleh, Norsaremah Grundy, John Q Science (General) 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. Springer International Publishing 2015 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45298/7/45298.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45298/10/45298_Mobile%20application%20testing%20in%20industrial%20contexts_Scopus.pdf Zein, Samer and Salleh, Norsaremah and Grundy, John (2015) Mobile application testing in industrial contexts: an exploratory multiple case-study. In: 14th International Conference on New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodology, Tools, and Techniques (SoMeT 2015), 15th-17th Nov. 2015, Naples, Italy. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-22689-7_3 10.1007/9783319226897_3 |
| spellingShingle | Q Science (General) Zein, Samer Salleh, Norsaremah Grundy, John Mobile application testing in industrial contexts: an exploratory multiple case-study |
| title | Mobile application testing in industrial contexts: an exploratory multiple case-study |
| title_full | Mobile application testing in industrial contexts: an exploratory multiple case-study |
| title_fullStr | Mobile application testing in industrial contexts: an exploratory multiple case-study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mobile application testing in industrial contexts: an exploratory multiple case-study |
| title_short | Mobile application testing in industrial contexts: an exploratory multiple case-study |
| title_sort | mobile application testing in industrial contexts: an exploratory multiple case-study |
| topic | Q Science (General) |
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