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Mobile app development has become the front line in software engineering. With the recent years many smartphone platforms have grew including but not limited to webOS, blackberry os, Tizen, android, and iOS. The coexistence of these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Shehab Eldeen Ayman Mounir

The development of high-quality datasets is crucial for benchmarking and advancing research in Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents. Despite their importance, existing datasets are often constructed under idealized conditions, overlooking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jingqi Yang , Zhilong Song , Jiawei Chen , Mingli Song , Sheng Zhou , linjun sun , Xiaogang Ouyang , Chun Chen , Can Wang

Many apps have basic accessibility issues, like missing labels or low contrast. Automated tools can help app developers catch basic issues, but can be laborious or require writing dedicated tests. We propose a system, motivated by a…

Automation of existing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) is important but hard to achieve. Upstream of making the GUI user-accessible or somehow scriptable, even the data-collection to understand the original interface poses significant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Iason Chaimalas , Arnas Vyšniauskas , Gabriel Brostow

Voice Assistant (VA) in smartphones has become very popular with millions of users nowadays. A key trend is the rise of custom VA embedding, which enables users to perform the customized tasks of their favorite app through voice control.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Garrett Weaver , Xue Qin

The evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands as a pivotal force shaping our society, finding applications across diverse domains such as education, sustainability, and safety. Leveraging AI within mobile applications makes it easily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jaida Gao , Calab Su , Etai Miller , Kevin Lu , Yu Meng

The importance of mobile application (app) quality insurance is increasing with the rapid development of the mobile Internet. Automated test generation approaches, as a dominant direction of app quality insurance, follow specific models or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Mingzhe Du , Zimin Ding , Zhenyu Chen , Zhendong Su

Failure to consider the characteristics, limitations, and abilities of diverse end-users during mobile apps development may lead to problems for end-users such as accessibility and usability issues. We refer to this class of problems as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Mojtaba Shahin , Humphrey O. Obie , Pragya Agrawal , John Grundy

In the current landscape of pervasive smartphones and tablets, apps frequently exist across both platforms. Although apps share most graphic user interfaces (GUIs) and functionalities across phones and tablets, developers often rebuild from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Han Hu , Haolan Zhan , Yujin Huang , Di Liu

With the popularity of smartphones and tablets, users have become accustomed to using different devices for different tasks, such as using their phones to play games and tablets to watch movies. To conquer the market, one app is often…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Han Hu , Haolan Zhan , Yujin Huang , Di Liu

Although App updates are frequent and software engineers would like to verify updated features only, automated testing techniques verify entire Apps and are thus wasting resources. We present Continuous Adaptation of Learned Models (CALM),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Chanh-Duc Ngo , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

With the increasing interconnection of smart devices, users often desire to adopt the same app on quite different devices for identical tasks, such as watching the same movies on both their smartphones and TVs. However, the significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Han Hu , Ruiqi Dong , John Grundy , Thai Minh Nguyen , Huaxiao Liu , Chunyang Chen

Mobile applications (apps) are integral to our daily lives, offering diverse services and functionalities. They enable sighted users to access information coherently in an extremely convenient manner. However, it remains unclear if visually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Mengxi Zhang , Huaxiao Liu , Yuheng Zhou , Chunyang Chen , Pei Huang , Jian Zhao

Due to the competitive environment, mobile apps are usually produced under pressure with lots of complicated functionality and UI pages. Therefore, it is challenging for various roles to design, understand, test, and maintain these apps.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiangyu Zhang , Lingling Fan , Sen Chen , Yucheng Su , Boyuan Li

The present paper introduces the initial implementation of a software exploration tool targeting graphical user interface (GUI) driven applications. GUITracer facilitates the comprehension of GUI-driven applications by starting from their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Arthur-Jozsef Molnar

Multi-window mobile scenarios, such as split-screen and foldable modes, make GUI display defects more likely by forcing applications to adapt to changing window sizes and dynamic layout reflow. Existing detection techniques are limited in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xinyao Zhang , Rui Wang , Jinhao Cui , Haotian Huang , Wei Xue , Wenhua Hu , Jianwen Xiang , Rui Hao

Software visualization approaches for code reviews are often implemented as standalone applications, which use static code analysis. The goal is to visualize the structural changes introduced by a pull / merge request to facilitate the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Alexander Krause-Glau , Lukas Damerau , Malte Hansen , Wilhelm Hasselbring

Many Android applications collect data from users. When they do, they must protect this collected data according to the current legal frameworks. Such data protection has become even more important since the European Union rolled out the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Mugdha Khedkar

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents have gained substantial attention due to their impressive capabilities to complete tasks through multiple interactions within GUI environments. However, existing agents primarily focus on enhancing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Qinzhuo Wu , Pengzhi Gao , Wei Liu , Jian Luan

As the popularity of mobile smart devices continues to climb the complexity of "apps" continues to increase, making the development and maintenance process challenging. Current bug tracking systems lack key features to effectively support…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vasquez , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Denys Poshyvanyk