Uma solução baseada em economia colaborativa para escalar o teste de aplicações Android em dispositivos reais

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Faria, Kenyo Abadio Crosara
• Orientador(a): Vincenzi, Auri Marcelo Rizzo
• Banca de defesa: Vincenzi, Auri Marcelo Rizzo, Leitão Júnior, Plínio de Sá, Soares, Fabrízzio Alphonsus Alves de Melo Nunes, Maldonado, José Carlos, Freitas, Eduardo Noronha de Andrade
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência da Computação (INF)
• Departamento: Instituto de Informática - INF (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Teste de software; Economia colaborativa; Testes UI
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Software testing; Collaborative economy; UI testing
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/9552

Software testing for mobile devices presents additional challenges compared to testing desktop and web applications, especially in fragmented environments such as the Android ecosystem. There are currently over 24 thousands different device models, with different screen sizes and densities, operating system versions, and other configurations that con- tribute to the instability of applications for this ecosystem. Several frameworks and TaaS platforms assist the validation of these type of applications, especially with regard to the construction and execution of UI tests. However, existing architectural limitations result in high-cost and low-diversity real devices to be used during Android apps validation. Inspired in this context and in the Collaborative Economy paradigm, this study proposes a disruptive architecture, which allows the execution of applications tests in an distribu- ted way, using idle devices around the world, reducing the cost of infrastructure with real devices at the same time with potential of generating a new market. Experiments have demonstrated the robustness of the architecture for performing UI tests on geographically distributed devices, and a financial analysis indicates a reduction of 85.67% in the infras- tructure cost of physical devices allocated for testing, while showing the viability of the built platform.