Paper Info
Title
Testing nearby peer-to-peer mobile apps at large
Abstract
While mobile devices are widely adopted across the population, most of their remote interactions usually go through Internet. However, this indirect interaction model can be assumed as inefficient and sensitive when considering communications with neighboring devices. To leverage such weaknesses, nearby peer-to-peer (P2P) communications are now included in mobile devices to enable device-to-device communications over standard wireless technologies (WiFi, Bluetooth). While this capability supports the design of collaborative whiteboards, local multiplayer gaming, multi-screen gaming, offline file transfers and many other applications, mobile apps using P2P are still suffering from app crashes, battery issues, and bad user reviews and ranking in app stores. We believe that this lack of quality can be partly attributed to the lack of tool support for testing P2P mobile apps at large. In this paper, we therefore introduce a test framework that allows developers to implement reproducible testing of nearby P2P apps. Beyond the identification of P2P-related errors, our approach also helps to tune the discovery protocol settings to optimize the deployment of P2P apps.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/MOBILESoft.2019.00009
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
integration test, mobile apps, peer-to-peer communications
Conference
978-0-7695-2953-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lakhdar Meftah101.35
Romain Rouvoy292970.34
Isabelle Chrisment322525.75