Thesis no: MGSE-2015-02 Software Quality Characteristics Tested For Mobile Application Development Literature Review and Empirical Survey WALEED ANWAR Faculty of Computing Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona Sweden This thesis is submitted to the Faculty of Computing at Blekinge Institute of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Software Engineering. The thesis is equivalent to 10 weeks of full time studies. Contact Information: Author(s): WALEED ANWAR E-mail:
[email protected] University advisor: Dr. Simon Poulding Department of Software Engineering Faculty of Computing Internet : www.bth.se Blekinge Institute of Technology Phone : +46 455 38 50 00 SE-371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden Fax : +46 455 38 50 57 ABSTRACT Context. Smart phones use is increasing day by day as there is large number of app users. Due to more use of apps, the testing of mobile application should be done correctly and flawlessly to ensure the effectiveness of mobile applications. Objectives. The objective of this research is to find out the important mobile application quality characteristics from developer’s perspective and how developers actually test for them. Apart from that how the developers test their mobile applications are also addressed. Methods. Two methodologies were used: the literature survey and the empirical survey. The literature survey was used to get familiar with the most commonly known mobile application quality characteristics for which mobile applications are tested for. The empirical survey was used to get data from developers by sending an online questionnaire link to the Google Play store developers and their response was recorded and further evaluated to present results.