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Examining Performance Issues of GUI Based Android Applications

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Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 393))

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Android platform applications are the most dominant technologies in the mobile markets. These applications have a wide range of functionalities such as Game, Business, Education, Entertainment, Shopping, Travel and Weather etc. However, most of these applications have a performance problem in their Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) since the mobile application GUI testing is daunting and too expensive. In this study, we investigated the severity of the Android applications GUI performance problem by examining a sample of freely downloadable applications from Google Store and analyzed performance issues of the applications.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by Next-Generation Information Computing Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (NRF-2014M3C4A7030503)

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  1. Department of Software Engineering, CAIIT, Chonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero Deokjin-gu, Jeollabuk-do, Jeonju-si, Republic of Korea

    Jung-Hoon Shin, Suntae Kim & Cheol Jung Yoo

  2. Department of Computing, Adama Sience and Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia

    Mesfin Abebe

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Kangwon National University, Joongang-ro, Kangwon-do, Samcheck-si, Republic of Korea

    Kwang-Yoon Jin

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  1. Computer Science and Engg., Seoul National Uni. of Sci. & Techn. Computer Science and Engg., Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. School of Comp. Science and Technology, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology School of Comp. Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Hai Jin

  3. Dept. of Multimedia Eng., Dongguk University Dept. of Multimedia Eng., Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Young-Sik Jeong

  4. College of Computer & Information Sci, King Saud University College of Computer & Information Sci, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Muhammad Khurram Khan

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Shin, JH., Abebe, M., Kim, S., Yoo, C.J., Jin, KY. (2016). Examining Performance Issues of GUI Based Android Applications. In: Park, J., Jin, H., Jeong, YS., Khan, M. (eds) Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 393. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1536-6_54

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