Fragility of layout-based and visual GUI test scripts: an assessment study on a hybrid mobile application
Riccardo Coppola, Luca Ardito, Marco Torchiano · 2019
Context: Albeit different approaches exist for automated GUI testing of hybrid mobile applications, the practice appears to be not so commonly adopted by developers. A possible reason for such a low diffusion can be the fragility of the techniques, i.e. the frequent need for maintaining test cases when the GUI of the app is changed.