Automating UI tests for mobile applications with formal gesture descriptions

MobileHCI 2014 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 213-222

  Hesenius, Marc ^a   Griebe, Tobias ^a   Gries, Stefan ^a   Gruhn, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gesture formalization; Gestures; Mobile applications; Software engineering; Test automation; Testing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOBILE COMPUTING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TESTING;

AUTOMATED APPLICATIONS; GESTURE FORMALIZATION; GESTURE-BASED INTERFACE; GESTURES; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; SPECIALIZED SOFTWARE; TEST AUTOMATION; TOUCH BASED INTERACTIONS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84908587528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2628363.2628391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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