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Test Criteria for Context-Aware Mobile Applications

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The 12th Conference on Information Technology and Its Applications (CITA 2023)

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Context-aware mobile apps provide adaptive services that depend on the changing environments. The challenge in testing context-aware mobile apps holds in that these apps adapt their behavior when context conditions are changing. According to an exhaustive survey of the testing context-aware mobile apps research area, current testing approaches take into consideration the apps functions and different contexts but do not consider testing coverage criteria nor evaluate the coverage of various situations. Our work is intended to fill this gap. In our previous research work, we presented a test model for context-aware mobile apps dealing with changing location context based on the combination of a Bigraph Reaction System and a Dynamic Feature Petri Net. In this paper, we propose a new test criterion for context-aware mobile apps. This criterion results from the combination of pattern-flow-based coverage criteria and boundary-based coverage criteria. With this criterion, we select the user’s location coordinates inside partition boundaries, which help narrowing the input data space and cover all test situations in test process.

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  1. The University of Danang, University of Science and Education, Da Nang, Vietnam

    Thi Thanh Binh Le

  2. University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, LCIS, Valence, France

    Thi Thanh Binh Le, Oum -El- Kheir Aktouf & Ioannis Parissis

  3. The University of Danang, Korea University of Information and Communication Technology, Da Nang, Vietnam

    Thanh Binh Nguyen

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  1. Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  2. Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK

    Hoa Le-Minh

  3. The University of Danang – Vietnam-Korea University of Information and Communication Technology, Danang, Vietnam

    Cong-Phap Huynh

  4. The University of Danang – Vietnam-Korea University of Information and Communication Technology, Danang, Vietnam

    Quang-Vu Nguyen

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Le, T.T.B., Aktouf, O.E.K., Parissis, I., Nguyen, T.B. (2023). Test Criteria for Context-Aware Mobile Applications. In: Nguyen, N.T., Le-Minh, H., Huynh, CP., Nguyen, QV. (eds) The 12th Conference on Information Technology and Its Applications. CITA 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 734. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36886-8_33

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