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Bug reports play a critical role in software maintenance by helping users convey encountered issues to developers. Recently, GUI screen capture videos have gained popularity as a bug reporting artifact due to their ease of use and ability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Sidong Feng , Dingbang Wang , Nikola Tomic , Tingting Yu , Aldeida Aleti , Chunyang Chen

Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to capture and include a wealth of information, making them a popular mechanism for users to inform developers of the problems encountered in the bug reports. However, watching the bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Sidong Feng , Mulong Xie , Yinxing Xue , Chunyang Chen

As part of the process of resolving issues submitted by users via bug reports, Android developers attempt to reproduce and observe the failures described by the bug report. Due to the low-quality of bug reports and the complexity of modern…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zhaoxu Zhang , Robert Winn , Yu Zhao , Tingting Yu , William G. J. Halfond

Bugs that surface in mobile applications can be difficult to reproduce and fix due to several confounding factors including the highly GUI-driven nature of mobile apps, varying contextual states, differing platform versions and device…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Kevin Moran , Richard Bonett , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Brendan Otten , Daniel Park , Denys Poshyvanyk

In the development and maintenance of Android apps, the quick and accurate reproduction of user-reported bugs is crucial to ensure application quality and improve user satisfaction. However, this process is often time-consuming and complex.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xiangyang Xiao , Huaxun Huang , Rongxin Wu

The modern software development landscape has seen a shift in focus toward mobile applications as tablets and smartphones near ubiquitous adoption. Due to this trend, the complexity of these apps has been increasing, making development and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vásquez , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Denys Poshyvanyk

Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to obtain and capture a wealth of information pertinent to software developers (e.g., bugs or feature requests), making them a popular mechanism for crowdsourced app feedback. Thus, these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Nathan Cooper , Kevin Moran , Oscar Chaparro , Andrian Marcus , Denys Poshyvanyk

Bug reports are vital for software maintenance that allow users to inform developers of the problems encountered while using the software. As such, researchers have committed considerable resources toward automating bug replay to expedite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Sidong Feng , Chunyang Chen

Software maintenance constitutes a large portion of the software development lifecycle. To carry out maintenance tasks, developers often need to understand and reproduce bug reports. As such, there has been increasing research activity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Tyler Wendland , Jingyang Sun , Junayed Mahmud , S. M. Hasan Mansur , Steven Huang , Kevin Moran , Julia Rubin , Mattia Fazzini

Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to obtain and capture a wealth of information pertinent to software developers (e.g., bugs or feature requests), making them a popular mechanism for crowdsourced app feedback. Thus, these…

Bug reporting is a key feature of mobile applications, as it enables developers to collect information about faults that escaped testing and thus affected end-users. This paper explores the idea of allowing end-users to immediately report…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Elena Masserini , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

Mobile apps are now ubiquitous. Before developing a new app, the development team usually endeavors painstaking efforts to review many existing apps with similar purposes. The review process is crucial in the sense that it reduces market…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Chunyang Chen , Ting Su , Wenhe Li , Yang Liu , Lihua Xu

Mobile application performance is a vital factor for user experience. Yet, performance issues are notoriously difficult to detect in development environments, where they often manifest less conspicuously, making their diagnosis more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zhengquan Li , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

The modern software development landscape has seen a shift in focus toward mobile applications as smartphones and tablets near ubiquitous adoption. Due to this trend, the complexity of these "apps" has been increasing, making development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Kevin Moran

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

In software development, bug report reproduction is a challenging task. This paper introduces ReBL, a novel feedback-driven approach that leverages GPT-4, a large-scale language model (LLM), to automatically reproduce Android bug reports.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Dingbang Wang , Yu Zhao , Sidong Feng , Zhaoxu Zhang , William G. J. Halfond , Chunyang Chen , Xiaoxia Sun , Jiangfan Shi , Tingting Yu

When a bug manifests in a user-facing application, it is likely to be exposed through the graphical user interface (GUI). Given the importance of visual information to the process of identifying and understanding such bugs, users are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Nathan Cooper , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Oscar Chaparro , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk

One of the key tasks related to ensuring mobile app quality is the reporting, management, and resolution of bug reports. As such, researchers have committed considerable resources toward automating various tasks of the bug management…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Jack Johnson , Junayed Mahmud , Tyler Wendland , Kevin Moran , Julia Rubin , Mattia Fazzini

Mobile apps are indispensable for people's daily life. Complementing with automated GUI testing, manual testing is the last line of defence for app quality. However, the repeated actions and easily missing of functionalities make manual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Zhe Liu , Chunyang Chen , Junjie Wang , Yuekai Huang , Jun Hu , Qing Wang

The modern software development landscape has seen a shift in focus toward mobile applications as "smart" devices near ubiquitous adoption. Due to this trend, the complexity of mobile applications has been increasing, making development and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Kevin Moran
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