Benchmark para apoiar experimentos com testes funcionais de aplicações móveis

Abstract

With the increasing importance of mobile applications in people's daily lives, new software engineering approaches are required to ensure the quality of such mobile applications before their publication in application stores, and this includes new software testing techniques. Research on mobile application testing needs guidelines to improve the validation processes, through experiments, of techniques proposed as results of scientific research. However, there is currently no detailed and comprehensive benchmark of applications for evaluating experimental testing techniques for mobile applications. The studies found present the lack of more detailed information of the applications. Thus, this work proposes a benchmark of support to researchers which experimentally evaluates test techniques for mobile applications. This benchmark is composed of set of mobile applications, test scripts and metrics for applications. As a result of the definition, selection process was obtained for mobile application benchmark. After selection the initial benchmark, two studies were conducted to investigate if the proposed benchmark provides support to researchers to experimentally evaluate test techniques for mobile applications. The applications were selected according to their characteristics and the needs of experiment. Thus, in both studies, 67% of benchmark applications were used.