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GUI testing is an essential quality assurance process in mobile app development. However, the creation and maintenance of GUI tests for mobile apps are resource-intensive and costly. Recognizing that many apps share similar functionalities,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Xiaolei Li , Jialun Cao , Yepang Liu , Shing-Chi Cheung , Hailong Wang

Context. Multiple automated techniques have been proposed and developed for mobile application GUI testing aiming to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality. The effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality are 3 fundamental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Yauhen Leanidavich Arnatovich , Lipo Wang

Automatic generators of GUI tests often fail to generate semantically relevant test cases, and thus miss important test scenarios. To address this issue, test adaptation techniques can be used to automatically generate semantically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Leonardo Mariani , Mauro Pezzè , Valerio Terragni , Daniele Zuddas

To ensure app compatibility and smoothness of user experience across diverse devices and platforms, developers have to perform cross-device, cross-platform testing of their apps, which is laborious. There comes a recently increasing trend…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Mulong Xie , Jiaming Ye , Zhenchang Xing , Lei Ma

Functional testing is essential for verifying that the business logic of mobile applications aligns with user requirements, serving as the primary methodology for quality assurance in software development. Despite its importance, functional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yakun Zhang , Zihan Wang , Xinzhi Peng , Zihao Xie , Xiaodong Wang , Xutao Li , Dan Hao , Lu Zhang , Yunming Ye

In the mobile development process, creating the user interface (UI) is highly resource intensive. Consequently, numerous studies have focused on automating UI development, such as generating UI from screenshots or design specifications.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yi Gao , Xing Hu , Tongtong Xu , Xin Xia , Xiaohu Yang

Background. Evidence suggests that mobile applications are not thoroughly tested as their desktop counterparts. In particular GUI testing is generally limited. Like web-based applications, mobile apps suffer from GUI test fragility, i.e.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Riccardo Coppola , Maurizio Morisio , Marco Torchiano

Testing is the most direct and effective technique to ensure software quality. Test scripts always play a more important role in mobile app testing than test cases for source code, due to the GUI-intensive and event-driven characteristics…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Jia Liu , Zhenyu Chen

Graphical user interface (GUI) grounding, the process of mapping human instructions to GUI actions, serves as a fundamental basis to autonomous GUI agents. While existing grounding models achieve promising performance to simulate the mouse…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zeyi Liao , Yadong Lu , Boyu Gou , Huan Sun , Ahmed Awadallah

It is common practice for developers of user-facing software to transform a mock-up of a graphical user interface (GUI) into code. This process takes place both at an application's inception and in an evolutionary context as GUI changes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Kevin Moran , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Michael Curcio , Richard Bonett , Denys Poshyvanyk

As mobile application (app) functionalities grow increasingly complex and their iterations accelerate, ensuring high reliability presents significant challenges. While functionality-oriented GUI testing has attracted growing research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jinlong He , Changwei Xia , Binru Huang , Jiwei Yan , Jun Yan , Jian Zhang

Graphical User Interface (GUI) has become one of the most significant parts of mobile applications (apps). It is a direct bridge between mobile apps and end users, which directly affects the end user's experience. Neglecting GUI quality can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Ziyuan Tuo , Quanjun Zhang , Chunyang Chen , Zhenyu Chen , Zhendong Su

In this work, we propose GUIPilot, an approach for detecting inconsistencies between the mobile design and their implementations. The mobile design usually consists of design mock-ups that specify (1) the expected screen appearances (e.g.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ruofan Liu , Xiwen Teoh , Yun Lin , Guanjie Chen , Ruofei Ren , Denys Poshyvanyk , Jin Song Dong

GUI is a bridge connecting user and application. Existing GUI testing tasks can be categorized into two groups: functionality testing and compatibility testing. While the functionality testing focuses on detecting application runtime bugs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Jiaming Ye , Mulong Xie , Siyuan Chen , Fuyuan Zhang , Lei Ma , Zhenchang Xing , Jianjun Zhao

Graphical user interface testing is significantly challenging, and automating it even more so. Test-driven development is impractical: it generally requires an initial implementation of the GUI to generate golden images or to construct…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Donald Beaver

The pervasiveness of mobile apps in everyday life necessitates robust testing strategies to ensure quality and efficiency, especially through end-to-end usage-based tests for mobile apps' user interfaces (UIs). However, manually creating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Benyamin Beyzaei , Saghar Talebipour , Ghazal Rafiei , Nenad Medvidovic , Sam Malek

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have revolutionized GUI automation, yet their efficacy is largely established on idealized, single-layer interfaces. This paper identifies a critical reliability gap: state-of-the-art agents face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haoren Zhao , Tianyi Chen , Zhen Wang

Software malleability allows applications to be easily changed, configured, and adapted even after deployment. While prior work has explored configurable systems, adaptive recommender systems, and malleable GUIs, these approaches are often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yuying Wang , Kaifeng Huang , Hao Deng , Zhiyuan Sun , Jinxuan Zhou , Shengjie Zhao

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

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Riccardo Coppola , Luca Ardito , Marco Torchiano
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