Towards Unit Testing of User Interface Code for Android Mobile Applications

Nowadays, mobile phones provide not just voice call and messaging services, but plethora of other services. Those computational capabilities allow mobile phones to serve people in various areas including education, banking, commerce, travelling, and other daily life aspects. Meanwhile, the number of mobile phone users has increased dramatically in the last decade. On the other hand, the usability of an application can usually be verified through the user interface. Therefore, this paper aims to design a measurement tool to evaluate the usability of mobile applications based on the usability attributes and dimensions that must be considered in the interface. To obtain the appropriate attributes, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has been conducted and the Goal Question Metric (GQM) has been used to design the tool. From 261 related works only 18 most relevant ones were selected, through four SLR. 25 dimensions were found through the SLR, but some of these dimensions are synonymous or a part of other dimensions. Consequently, three dimensions must be included in any usability evaluation instrument, which is broken down into ten sub dimensions.

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MD: A New Mobile User Interface Model

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.268-270.1739 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 268-270 ◽

pp. 1739-1744

Author(s):

Cu Guo ◽

Qing Yi Hua ◽

Ya Ming Li ◽

Yan Shuo Chang ◽

Hong An Pan

Keyword(s):

User Interface ◽

Mobile Applications ◽

Interface Design ◽

Mobile User ◽

Interactive Graphics ◽

Interface Model ◽

Mvc Model ◽

Prototype Development ◽

New Type ◽

Pac Model

In view of various shortcomings of the traditional MVC model and PAC model in mobile applications, this paper presents a new type of mobile user interface model named MD to guide the mobile user interface design and prototyping. MD model reasonably distributes the tasks between front-end and back-end: input and output are closely coupled as front code put in the D to achieve macro-communication, application model can be considered as back code put in the M. This model effectively solves the power restricted and other problems of mobile devices. By applying this model to the prototype development of Android-based Interactive Graphics Toolkit—AIGT, we verifies the feasibility and effectiveness of the model.

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THE USE OF FLAT ILLUSTRATIONS IN WEBSITES AND SMART PHONES APPLICATIONS’ USER INTERFACE (UI) DESIGN

Journal of Art & Architecture Research Studies - JAARS ◽

10.47436/jaarsfa.v1i2.65 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Hanan Fouad

Keyword(s):

User Interface ◽

User Interfaces ◽

Mobile Applications ◽

Smart Phones ◽

Brand Identity ◽

Modern Times ◽

Ui Design ◽

Flat Design ◽

Design Style

Smartphones and computers are the most usable communicative tools in modern times. This urged the need to develop softwares, webpages and mobile applications that work as a mediator between users and devices. This is in addition to user interfaces (UI) that need to be designed to help users while using these websites and mobile applications. In this paper, the researcher reviews the Flat design style and its use in UI design. Then, she studies Flat illustrations that are added to user interfaces to help users imagine things better, enhance the brand identity of the UI and make texts and interactions easier to understand. The researcher then reviewed samples of Flat illustrations done for universal user interfaces. Finally, she made a practical study where she examined the importance of using Flat illustrations in mobile app’s UI. Through which she could reach to her final results and conclusions via analysis of outputs..

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SCUTMA: Selecting Components for Unit Testing in Mobile Applications

Journal of Computer Science ◽

10.3844/jcssp.2020.1367.1392 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (10) ◽

pp. 1367-1392

Author(s):

Josias Gomes ◽

Isabel K. Villanes ◽

Silvia M. Ascate ◽

Awdren Font�o ◽

Eduardo Noronha de Andrade Freitas ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mobile Applications ◽

Unit Testing

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Development Mobile Application Android Based for Sensor and Transducer

Journal of Physics Conference Series ◽

10.1088/1742-6596/2111/1/012010 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2111 (1) ◽

pp. 012010

Author(s):

Y I Hatmojo ◽

S M Azis

Keyword(s):

Vocational Education ◽

Mobile Applications ◽

Mobile Application ◽

Unit Testing ◽

Test Results ◽

Requirements Definition ◽

Development Life Cycle ◽

Software Development Life Cycle ◽

Waterfall Model

Abstract The aims of this research are: (1) producing a mobile applications android based for sensor and transducer field of study on vocational education; (2) know the quality of the product mobile applications android based for sensor and transducer field study on vocational education. The method used is the Software Development Life Cycle with the Waterfall model. The stages in Waterfall model are: (1) requirements definition; (2) system and software design; (3) implementation and unit testing; (4) integration and system testing; (5) operation and maintenance. The black box test results show the performance of Sensor application software can all function properly. While the results of the compatibility test show the application can run on various android systems (at least Android 4.2).

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