Model-based Testing of Mobile Systems – An Empirical Study on QuizUp Android App

Autor: Vignir Gudmundsson, Mikael Lindvall, Luca Aceto, Johann Bergthorsson, Dharmalingam Ganesan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol 208, Iss Proc. PrePost 2016, Pp 16-30 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2075-2180
DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.208.2
Popis: We present an empirical study in which model-based testing (MBT) was applied to a mobile system: the Android client of QuizUp, the largest mobile trivia game in the world. The study shows that traditional MBT approaches based on extended finite-state machines can be used to test a mobile app in an effective and efficient way. Non-trivial defects were detected on a deployed system that has millions of users and was already well tested. The duration of the overall testing effort was of three months, including the construction of the models. Maintaining a single behavioral model for the app was key in order to test it in an efficient way.
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