A grey-box approach for automated GUI-model generation of mobile applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7793 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 250-265

  Yang, Wei ^a,b   Prasad, Mukul R ^a   Xie, Tao ^b  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROID APPS; ANDROID PLATFORMS; AUTOMATED TESTING; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (GUI); GREY-BOX; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MOBILE APP; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE APPS; MOBILE PLATFORM; MODEL BASED TESTING; SET OF EVENTS;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MOBILE COMPUTING; ROBOTS; STATIC ANALYSIS; TESTING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84874383552     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37057-1_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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