A context simulator as testing support for mobile apps

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 13-17-April-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages 535-541

  Vieira, Vaninha ^a   Holl, Konstantin ^b   Hassel, Michael ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^c MANNHEIM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context modeling; Context simulation; Context awareness; Mobile application testing; Quality assurance.

Indexed keywords

MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT MODELING; CONTEXT SIMULATION; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; CONTEXT-AWARE MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE APPLICATION TESTING; MODEL AND SIMULATION; TEST CASE DERIVATIONS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 84955454187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2695664.2695782     Document Type: Conference Paper

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