Insumos para a utilização do critério de teste baseado em erros para aplicações móveis

Abstract

In the context of current computing, mobile platforms have been presented as one of the most growth platforms, and this is mainly by the increased popularity of mobile devices. Furthermore, such applications are becoming indispensable in the routine of their users, assuming often critical roles, due to the data they handle. In this scenario, ensuring the quality of such applications is a usual purpose in recent academic work. For this, the Software Engineering field provides methods, techniques, standards and activities that seek to ensure software quality in general. Such activities are named Verification and Validation (V&V), and Software Testing is inserted into this context. However, some activities need to be adapted on account of the characteristics involving the mobile platform. In this adaptation, the knowledge of possible failures can provide important information to supplies for utilization of testing activities, specifically to mobile applications. This thesis presents the definition of the fault model MOBPI-FM (Mobile Platform Independent - Fault Model) specific for mobile applications platform. This model was generated systematically by using the HAZOP technique (Hazard and Operability Study) and consists of three levels of use (Fault, error and defect). The fault level proposed in MOBPI-FM model was evaluated in relation to actual fault coverage through a feasibility study with 58 mobile applications in the Android platform. The results indicated that 86% of the defects were evaluated covered by the model