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Accessibility is crucial for inclusive app usability, yet developers often struggle to identify and fix app accessibility issues due to a lack of awareness, expertise, and inadequate tools. Current accessibility testing tools can identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Forough Mehralian , Titus Barik , Jeff Nichols , Amanda Swearngin

PDFs remain the dominant format for scholarly communication, despite significant accessibility challenges for blind and low-vision users. While various tools attempt to evaluate PDF accessibility, there is no standardized methodology to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Anukriti Kumar , Tanushree Padath , Lucy Lu Wang

Achieving accessibility compliance is extremely important for many government agencies and businesses who wish to improve services for their consumers. With the growing reliance on dynamic web applications many organizations are finding it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Trevor Bostic , Jeffrey Stanley , John Higgins , Daniel Chudnov , Justin Brunelle , Brittany Tracy

Mainstream software applications and tools are the configurable platforms with an enormous number of parameters along with their values. Certain settings and possible interactions between these parameters may harden (or soften) the security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shuvalaxmi Dass , Akbar Siami Namin

Context: The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in software engineering has led to the development of AI-powered test automation tools, promising improved efficiency, reduced maintenance effort, and enhanced defect-detection. However, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Vahid Garousi , Nithin Joy , Zafar Jafarov , Alper Buğra Keleş , Sevde Değirmenci , Ece Özdemir , Ryan Zarringhalami

Many tools have been created for measuring the agility of software teams, thus creating a saturation in the field. Three agile measurement tools were selected in order to validate whether they yield sim-ilar results. The surveys of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Konstantinos Chronis , Lucas Gren

Low-code applications are gaining popularity across various fields, enabling non-developers to participate in the software development process. However, due to the strong reliance on graphical user interfaces, they may unintentionally…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mohammadali Mohammadkhani , Sara Zahedi Movahed , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Mojtaba Shahin , Khuong Tran Hoang

Context: Accessibility issues (e.g., small size and narrow interval) in mobile applications (apps) lead to obstacles for billions of low vision users in interacting with Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Although GUI accessibility scanning…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Mengxi Zhang , Huaxiao Liu , Shenning Song , Chunyang Chen , Pei Huang , Jian Zhao

Fairness testing is increasingly recognized as fundamental in software engineering, especially in the domain of data-driven systems powered by artificial intelligence. However, its practical integration into software development may pose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Matheus de Morais Leça , Ronnie de Souza Santos

Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatibility is essential for system or software updates to ensure that libraries continue to function. Tools that can assess a binary or library ABI can thus be used to make predictions about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Vanessa Sochat , Tim Haines

Accessibility checkers are tools in support of accessible app development, and their use is encouraged by accessibility best practices. However, most current checkers evaluate static or mechanically-generated contexts, failing to capture…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mingyuan Zhong , Xia Chen , Davin Win Kyi , Chen Li , James Fogarty , Jacob O. Wobbrock

There is a general belief that software must be able to easily do things that humans find difficult. Since finding sources for plagiarism in a text is not an easy task, there is a wide-spread expectation that it must be simple for software…

In recent years, mobile accessibility has become an important trend with the goal of allowing all users the possibility of using any app without many limitations. User reviews include insights that are useful for app evolution. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Wajdi Aljedaani , Murtaza Tamjeed , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Yasmine N. Elglaly

Web accessibility aims to ensure that web content and services are usable by people with diverse abilities. In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly explored to support accessibility-related tasks on the web,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Wajdi Aljedaani , Rubel Hassan Mollik

With the increasing need for inclusive and user-friendly technology, web accessibility is crucial to ensuring equal access to online content for individuals with disabilities, including visual, auditory, cognitive, or motor impairments.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Calista Huang , Alyssa Ma , Suchir Vyasamudri , Eugenie Puype , Sayem Kamal , Juan Belza Garcia , Salar Cheema , Michael Lutz

Software testing is a fundamental process of software development, and prior work has shown that visualizations of test results support testers' decision-making. However, Human-Computer Interaction research on software testing has yet to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Brandon Lit , Anthony Maocheia-Ricci , Thomas Driscoll

This paper proposes a more comprehensive evaluation methodology to measure the usability and user experience qualities of accessible synchronous computer-mediated communication applications. The methodology goes beyond current practices by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Fernando G. Lobo , Marielba Zacarias , Paulo A. Condado , Teresa Romão , Rui Godinho , Manuel Moreno

Mobile apps provide new opportunities to people with disabilities to act independently in the world. Motivated by this trend, researchers have conducted empirical studies by using the inaccessibility issue rate of each page (i.e., screen…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Sen Chen , Chunyang Chen , Lingling Fan , Mingming Fan , Xian Zhan , Yang Liu

User studies are paramount for advancing science. However, researchers face several barriers when performing them despite the existence of supporting tools. In this work, we study how existing tools and their features cope with previously…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Lázaro Costa , Susana Barbosa , Jácome Cunha

Integration testing is one the important phase in software testing life cycle (STLC). With the fast growth of internet and web services, web-based applications are also growing rapidly and their importance and complexity is also increasing.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-07-16 Imran Akhtar Khan , Roopa Singh