Fragility and evolution of android test suites
Riccardo Coppola · 2017
In this paper a PhD research started in November 2015 is described. Its principal aims are an investigation of existing techniques and issues of GUI testing for Android applications, and a definition and exploration of the fragility problem for GUI test suites. The final outcomes of the work, whose end is forecasted for early 2019, will mainly be: (i) a study of the adoption of testing among open-source mobile applications, (ii) a characterization of the fragility issues and its causes, (iii) a set of metrics to evaluate the presence of fragility of existing projects: (iv) a set of best practices for developers to avoid testing fragilities for their scripted test suites.