Mobile Application Testing: A Tutorial

@article{Gao2014MobileAT,
  title={Mobile Application Testing: A Tutorial},
  author={Jerry Zeyu Gao and Xiaoying Bai and W. T. Tsai and Tadahiro Uehara},
  journal={Computer},
  year={2014},
  volume={47},
  pages={46-55}
}
To cope with frequent upgrades of mobile devices and technologies, engineers need a reusable and cost-effective environment for testing mobile applications and an elastic infrastructure to support large-scale test automation. 
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