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Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides a visual bridge between a software application and end users, through which they can interact with each other. With the development of technology and aesthetics, the visual effects of the GUI are more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Zhe Liu , Chunyang Chen , Junjie Wang , Yuekai Huang , Jun Hu , Qing Wang

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

Android, the #1 mobile app framework, enforces the single-GUI-thread model, in which a single UI thread manages GUI rendering and event dispatching. Due to this model, it is vital to avoid blocking the UI thread for responsiveness. One…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Lingling Fan , Ting Su , Sen Chen , Guozhu Meng , Yang Liu , Lihua Xu , Geguang Pu

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…

The inception of a mobile app often takes form of a mock-up of the Graphical User Interface (GUI), represented as a static image delineating the proper layout and style of GUI widgets that satisfy requirements. Following this initial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Kevin Moran , Boyang Li , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Dan Jelf , Denys Poshyvanyk

Recent research has begun to examine the potential of automatically finding and fixing accessibility issues that manifest in software. However, while recent work makes important progress, it has generally been skewed toward identifying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Arun Krishnavajjala , SM Hasan Mansur , Justin Jose , Kevin Moran

Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are central to app development projects. App developers may use the GUIs of other apps as a means of requirements refinement and rapid prototyping or as a source of inspiration for designing and improving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jialiang Wei , Anne-Lise Courbis , Thomas Lambolais , Binbin Xu , Pierre Louis Bernard , Gérard Dray , Walid Maalej

The demand for quality in mobile applications has increased greatly given users' high reliance on them for daily tasks. Developers work tirelessly to ensure that their applications are both functional and user-friendly. In pursuit of this,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Safwat Ali Khan

Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides a visual bridge between a software application and end users, through which they can interact with each other. With the upgrading of mobile devices and the development of aesthetics, the visual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Zhe Liu , Chunyang Chen , Junjie Wang , Yuekai Huang , Jun Hu , Qing Wang

In mobile applications, Pop-up window (PoW) plays a crucial role in improving user experience, guiding user actions, and delivering key information. Unfortunately, the excessive use of PoWs severely degrades the user experience. These PoWs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Dongpeng Wu , Yuhong Nan , Shaojiang Wang , Jiawei Wang , Luwa Li , Xueqiang Wang

As the bridge between users and software, Graphical User Interface (GUI) is critical to the app accessibility. Scaling up the font or display size of GUI can help improve the visual impact, readability, and usability of an app, and is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yuhui Su , Chunyang Chen , Junjie Wang , Zhe Liu , Dandan Wang , Shoubin Li , Qing Wang

Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides visual bridges between software apps and end users. However, due to the compatibility of software or hardware, UI display issues such as text overlap, blurred screen, image missing always occur during…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yuhui Su , Zhe Liu , Chunyang Chen , Junjie Wang , Qing Wang

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) plays a central role in mobile applications, directly affecting usability and user satisfaction. Poor GUI performance, such as lag or unresponsiveness, can lead to negative user experience and decreased…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Wei Liu , Feng Lin , Linqiang Guo , Tse-Hsun Chen , Ahmed E. Hassan

Unique challenges arise when testing mobile applications due to their prevailing event-driven nature and complex contextual features (e.g. sensors, notifications). Current automated input generation approaches for Android apps are typically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vasquez , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Christopher Vendome , Denys Poshyvanyk

Software testing is an important phase in the software development life-cycle because it helps in identifying bugs in a software system before it is shipped into the hand of its end users. There are numerous studies on how developers test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Luis Cruz , Rui Abreu , David Lo

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

Mobile applications rely on complex backends that introduce significant security risks, yet developers often lack the tools to assess these risks effectively. This paper presents AndroScanner, an automated pipeline for detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Harini Dandu

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

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

Smartphones, the devices we carry everywhere with us, are being heavily tracked and have undoubtedly become a major threat to our privacy. As "tracking the trackers" has become a necessity, various static and dynamic analysis tools have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Jagdish Prasad Achara , Vincent Roca , Claude Castelluccia , Aurelien Francillon
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