Cross-platform testing and maintenance of web and mobile applications

@inproceedings{Choudhary2014CrossplatformTA,
  title={Cross-platform testing and maintenance of web and mobile applications},
  author={Shauvik Roy Choudhary},
  booktitle={ICSE Companion},
  year={2014}
}
Modern software applications are expected to run on a variety of web and mobile platforms with diverse software and hardware level features. Thus, developers of such software need to duplicate the testing and maintenance effort on a wide range of platforms. Often developers are not able to cope with this increasing demand. Thus, they release software that is broken on certain platforms affecting a class of customers using such platforms. The goal of my work is to improve the testing and… 
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