An Experimental Study on Robustness and Responsiveness Testing of Iranian Android Games

Abstract

During the last decade, many Iranian software and game developers have targeted Android as their main development framework, resulting in the availability of a large number of Android applications. Despite the opportunities that Android provides for application developers, it introduces new challenges for the development of high quality applications. In this paper, we have focused on responsiveness and fault-tolerance as two interesting quality attributes of Android applications, lack of which might result in users' dissatisfaction and leaving the application. Hence, we have conducted an experimental study, using monkey testing technique, on a set of Iranian Android games to assess their robustness and responsiveness. The results demonstrate that much more attention needs to be paid by Iranian Android developers to the responsiveness and fault-tolerance of their applications, since about 85% of the analyzed games have shown to have at least one responsiveness or robustness error.