A GUI crawling-based technique for android mobile application testing

Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 252-261

  Amalfitano, Domenico ^a   Fasolino, Anna Rita ^a   Tramontana, Porfirio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRASH TESTING; DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; HIGH QUALITY; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; REGRESSION TESTING; SMALL SIZE; TEST CASE; TESTING TECHNIQUE;

AUTOMATIC TESTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; VERIFICATION;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 80051613634     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSTW.2011.77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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