Abstract
Along with the widespread use of smartphones, Android has become one of the major platform for multimedia applications (apps). However, due to the fast evolution of Android operating system and the fragmentation of Android devices, it becomes important for an Android multimedia app to be tested on different devices to ensure that the app is compatible with and run well on any of the devices so as to provide consistent user experiences. This paper presents a cloud testing platform (CTP) that allows Android multimedia apps to be tested automatically against a scalable number of physical devices in parallel. Particularly, CTP provides four types of testing to ensure the compatibility of apps from different perspectives. Further, to facilitate identifying the bugs of apps, in addition to test results, CTP also provides the video, screenshots, and performance data corresponding to the tests. The case study shows that CTP can be effective in ensuring the compatibility of Android multimedia apps while saving test time and effort.
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This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under the grant No. MOST 105-2221-E-027-086.
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Liu, CH. (2018). A Cloud Platform for Compatibility Testing of Android Multimedia Applications. In: Hung, J., Yen, N., Hui, L. (eds) Frontier Computing. FC 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 464. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7398-4_18
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