Testing Location-Based Function Services for Mobile Applications

Abstract

Mobile testing is becoming an urgent and important research subject due to the explosive increase of mobile app downloads and mobile users. Now, location-based function services in mobile apps not only enhance mobile user experience, but also bring new challenges and issues in software testing. This paper focuses on location-based testing issues for mobile apps, and proposes a new testing model and method to address these needs. An application example for a popular location-based mobile app (Waze) and its case study results are reported based on SJSU Engineering Dpt. students' mobile testing project experience.