Model-based Testing of Mobile Systems – An Empirical Study on QuizUp Android App

We present an empirical study in which model-based testing (MBT) was applied to a mobile system: the Android client of QuizUp, the largest mobile trivia game in the world. The study shows that traditional MBT approaches based on extended finite-state machines can be used to test a mobile app in an e...

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Published inElectronic proceedings in theoretical computer science Vol. 208; no. Proc. PrePost 2016; pp. 16 - 30
Main Authors Gudmundsson, Vignir, Lindvall, Mikael, Aceto, Luca, Bergthorsson, Johann, Ganesan, Dharmalingam
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Open Publishing Association 25.05.2016
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ISSN2075-2180
2075-2180
DOI10.4204/EPTCS.208.2

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Summary:We present an empirical study in which model-based testing (MBT) was applied to a mobile system: the Android client of QuizUp, the largest mobile trivia game in the world. The study shows that traditional MBT approaches based on extended finite-state machines can be used to test a mobile app in an effective and efficient way. Non-trivial defects were detected on a deployed system that has millions of users and was already well tested. The duration of the overall testing effort was of three months, including the construction of the models. Maintaining a single behavioral model for the app was key in order to test it in an efficient way.
ISSN:2075-2180
2075-2180
DOI:10.4204/EPTCS.208.2