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Ensuring the correct visual appearance of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) is important because visual bugs can cause substantial losses for businesses. An application might behave functionally correct in an automated test, but visual bugs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Daniel Kraus , Jeremias Rößler , Martin Sulzmann

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) plays a critical role in the interaction between users and mobile applications (apps), aiming at facilitating the operation process. However, due to the variety of functions and non-standardized design,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Mengxi Zhang , Huaxiao Liu , Chunyang Chen , Guangyong Gao , Han Li , Jian Zhao

User interface (UI) design is a difficult yet important task for ensuring the usability, accessibility, and aesthetic qualities of applications. In our paper, we develop a machine-learned model, UIClip, for assessing the design quality and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jason Wu , Yi-Hao Peng , Amanda Li , Amanda Swearngin , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Jeffrey Nichols

Large language model-(LLM) based automated program repair (APR) techniques have shown promising results in resolving real-world GitHub issue tasks. Existing APR systems are primarily evaluated in unimodal settings (e.g., SWE-bench).…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Kai Huang , Jian Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Chunyang Chen

Mobile graphical user interface (GUI) agents are designed to automate everyday tasks on smartphones. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the capabilities of mobile GUI agents. However, most…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mingxian Yu , Siqi Luo , Xu Chen

Mobile graphical user interface (GUI) agents enable AI models to autonomously operate smartphones on behalf of users. However, most existing systems focus primarily on optimizing task accuracy and rely on cloud-hosted models for inference,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Runxi Huang , Liyu Zhang , Shengzhong Liu , Xiaomin Ouyang

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

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

For graphical user interface (UI) design, it is important to understand what attracts visual attention. While previous work on saliency has focused on desktop and web-based UIs, mobile app UIs differ from these in several respects. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Luis A. Leiva , Yunfei Xue , Avya Bansal , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Tuğçe Köroğlu , Niraj R. Dayama , Antti Oulasvirta

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have markedly expanded the competence of graphical user-interface (GUI) systems, propelling them beyond controlled simulations into complex, real-world environments across diverse platforms. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Bin Lei , Nuo Xu , Ali Payani , Mingyi Hong , Chunhua Liao , Yu Cao , Caiwen Ding

Background: Performance bugs can lead to severe issues regarding computation efficiency, power consumption, and user experience. Locating these bugs is a difficult task because developers have to judge for every costly operation whether…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Sebastian Baltes , Oliver Moseler , Fabian Beck , Stephan Diehl

Automatically detecting software failures is an important task and a longstanding challenge. It requires finding failure-inducing test cases whose test input can trigger the software's fault, and constructing an automated oracle to detect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Tsz-On Li , Wenxi Zong , Yibo Wang , Haoye Tian , Ying Wang , Shing-Chi Cheung , Jeff Kramer

Bug report management is a costly software maintenance process comprised of several challenging tasks. Given the UI-driven nature of mobile apps, bugs typically manifest through the UI, hence the identification of buggy UI screens and UI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Antu Saha , Yang Song , Junayed Mahmud , Ying Zhou , Kevin Moran , Oscar Chaparro

AI-powered coding assistants, like GitHub Copilot, are increasingly used to boost developers' productivity. However, their output quality hinges on the contextual richness of the prompts. Meanwhile, gaze behaviour carries rich cognitive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yasmine Elfares , Gül Çalikli , Mohamed Khamis

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

Detecting user interface (UI) controls from software screenshots is a critical task for automated testing, accessibility, and software analytics, yet it remains challenging due to visual ambiguities, design variability, and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Milad Moradi , Ke Yan , David Colwell , Matthias Samwald , Rhona Asgari

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

GUI test migration aims to produce test cases with events and assertions to test specific functionalities of a target app. Existing migration approaches typically focus on the widget-mapping paradigm that maps widgets from source apps to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yakun Zhang , Chen Liu , Xiaofei Xie , Yun Lin , Jin Song Dong , Dan Hao , Lu Zhang

As software development practices increasingly adopt AI-powered tools, ensuring that such tools can support secure coding has become critical. This study evaluates the effectiveness of GitHub Copilot's recently introduced code review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Amena Amro , Manar H. Alalfi

In recent years, there has been a growing focus on scrutinizing the security of cellular networks, often attributing security vulnerabilities to issues in the underlying protocol design descriptions. These protocol design specifications,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Mirza Masfiqur Rahman , Imtiaz Karim , Elisa Bertino