Model-based Testing of Mobile Systems -- An Empirical Study on QuizUp Android App
This addresses testing challenges for mobile app developers, but it is incremental as it applies an existing MBT approach to a new domain.
The study applied model-based testing (MBT) using extended finite-state machines to the QuizUp Android app, a large mobile trivia game, and found it effective and efficient, detecting non-trivial defects in a deployed system with millions of users over a three-month effort.
We present an empirical study in which model-based testing (MBT) was applied to a mobile system: the Android client of QuizUp, the largest mobile trivia game in the world. The study shows that traditional MBT approaches based on extended finite-state machines can be used to test a mobile app in an effective and efficient way. Non-trivial defects were detected on a deployed system that has millions of users and was already well tested. The duration of the overall testing effort was of three months, including the construction of the models. Maintaining a single behavioral model for the app was key in order to test it in an efficient way.