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Avgust: Automating Usage-Based Test Generation from Videos of App Executions
Yixue Zhao, Saghar Talebipour, Kesina Baral +6
Writing and maintaining UI tests for mobile apps is a time-consuming and tedious task. While decades of research have produced automated approaches for UI test generation, these ap…
Assessing the Feasibility of Web-Request Prediction Models on Mobile Platforms
Yixue Zhao, Siwei Yin, Adriana Sejfia +3
Prefetching web pages is a well-studied solution to reduce network latency by predicting users' future actions based on their past behaviors. However, such techniques are largely u…
FrUITeR: A Framework for Evaluating UI Test Reuse
Yixue Zhao, Justin Chen, Adriana Sejfia +5
UI testing is tedious and time-consuming due to the manual effort required. Recent research has explored opportunities for reusing existing UI tests from an app to automatically ge…
Mobile-App Analysis and Instrumentation Techniques Reimagined with DECREE
Yixue Zhao
A large number of mobile-app analysis and instrumentation techniques have emerged in the past decade. However, those techniques' components are difficult to extract and reuse outsi…
A Microservice Architecture for Online Mobile App Optimization
Yixue Zhao, Nenad Medvidovic
A large number of techniques for analyzing and optimizing mobile apps have emerged in the past decade. However, those techniques' components are notoriously difficult to extract an…
Leveraging Program Analysis to Reduce User-Perceived Latency in Mobile Applications
Yixue Zhao, Marcelo Schmitt Laser, Yingjun Lyu +1
Reducing network latency in mobile applications is an effective way of improving the mobile user experience and has tangible economic benefits. This paper presents PALOMA, a novel…
Empirically Assessing Opportunities for Prefetching and Caching in Mobile Apps
Yixue Zhao, Paul Wat, Marcelo Schmitt Laser +1
Network latency in mobile software has a large impact on user experience, with potentially severe economic consequences. Prefetching and caching have been shown effective in reduci…