Mining test repositories for automatic detection of UI performance regressions in Android apps
María E. Gómez, Romain Rouvoy, Bram Adams, Lionel Seinturier · 2016
The reputation of a mobile app vendor is crucial to survive amongst the ever increasing competition. However this reputation largely depends on the quality of the apps, both functional and non-functional. One major non-functional requirement of mobile apps is to guarantee smooth UI interactions, since choppy scrolling or navigation caused by performance problems on a mobile device's limited hardware resources, is highly annoying for end-users. The main research challenge of automatically identifying UI performance problems on mobile devices is that the performance of an app highly varies depending on its context---i.e., the hardware and software configurations on which it runs.