Grey Box Approach for Mobile Application Testing

Abstract

Mobile applications have become a core component of our day-to-day life. These mobile applications (or as Mobile Apps.) can be customized,few of them are free, i.e., open source or freeware and some are paid or proprietary ones. Users look for the ones that are error-free and fulfill the needs. The error-free solutions require proper testing. Proper testing requires more time and efforts. Testing of mobile app. is alike as of the testing of desktop applications, but is more sensitive, as mobile apps. have less resources and more demand, they being portable. As with the desktop applications, black box, white box and grey box testing can be applied to mobile applications too. However, to address mobile-specific issues, there is a need for research in automation testing of mobile applications. The objective of this paper is to introduce mobile application by its responsive UI functionality and accuracy in presentation. The responsive UI need for mobile application is given in the introduction section. Also the paper gives an account of testing in mobile application in Sect. 2. The section characterizes the testing specific for mobile application, also compares different testing techniques with their applications. The next section compares testing techniques as black and white box with grey box testing. The successive section illustrates grey box testing in mobile application. In consecutive sections significance of research in grey box testing in mobile app. development is introduced. The paper also reviews existing studies of apps. on grey box testing in mobile app. testing and find research gaps. The paper concludes with need for future works in grey box testing for mobile application.