An automated detection framework for testing visual GUI layouts of android applications

Abstract

As Android is one of the most popular mobile operating systems, software quality maintenance of Android applications becomes an important issue. Although many studies have been conducted for detecting software bugs of Android apps, the chaotic layout problem appearing in different screen resolutions has not been discussed. In this paper, we propose a novel detection framework that employs two detection schemes for testing visual GUI layouts. The empirical experiments were conducted with three Android apps. The preliminary results show that the proposed detection framework can effectively discover all chaotic situations of the test apps.