A systematic mapping study on cloud-based mobile application testing

Badamasi, Imam Ya'au and Salleh, Norsaremah and Nordin, Azlin and Alwan, Ali Amer and Idris, Norbik Bashah and Abas, Hafiza (2019) A systematic mapping study on cloud-based mobile application testing. Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 18 (8). pp. 485-527. ISSN 1675-414X E-ISSN 2180-3862

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Abstract

Mobile applications and devices have played a significant role in boosting global businesses that encompass various domains such as health, education, banking, and transportation. These tools have become indispensable for everyday activities, and its applications have been developing rapidly with diverse features and platforms. However, this has created new problems and security challenges. To ensure the quality and security of these applications, a rigorous and systematic testing using cloud-based environment is required. By employing systematic mapping study (SMS) method, this paper will examine the empirical studies that address the issues on cloud-based mobile application testing. This paper presents a total of 23 primary studies that investigate cloud based mobile application testing and the effect of Testing as a Service (TaaS). The majority of these studies (56.5%) contribute to literature with a number of framework proposals. A large proportion of the studies (60.9%) analyzed Android applications, and usually supported a single type of mobile app testing. Other than that, the majority of the studies (52.2%) have failed to investigate the outcomes of TaaS, despite a plethora of services that offers TaaS. The SMS method conducted in this paper has identified gaps in literature, which are: 1) there is a lack of general and scalable approaches to support the diverse types of mobile app testing for applications using various platforms, and 2) the lack of evaluation methods such as case study to validate the proposed approaches.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	7094/75866
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Cloud-based mobile application testing, systematic mapping, testing-as-a-service.
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science
Depositing User:	DR. ALI A. ALWAN AL-JUBOORI
Date Deposited:	12 Nov 2019 10:00
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2019 14:48
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/75866

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