一句话：通过工业调研发现，准确有效的 GUI 控件检测是提升移动游戏测试自动化的关键。
本文针对移动游戏测试中通用移动测试技术难以直接适用的问题，与网易游戏合作开展了一项工业实证研究。作者首先通过 scrum 访谈和问卷调查了该公司的移动测试开发团队，系统梳理了移动游戏测试流程中的挑战与痛点。研究发现，准确且有效的 GUI 控件检测是提升移动游戏测试自动化水平以及支撑其他下游分析任务的关键支柱。该工作为后续设计面向移动游戏的测试与 GUI 分析技术提供了来自工业界的实证依据。
With the widespread adoption of smartphones in our daily life, mobile games experienced increasing demand over the past years. Meanwhile, the quality of mobile games has been continuously drawing more and more attention, which can greatly affect the player experience. For better quality assurance, general-purpose testing has been extensively studied for mobile apps. However, due to the unique characteristic of mobile games, existing mobile testing techniques may not be directly suitable and applicable. To better understand the challenges in mobile game testing, in this paper, we first initiate an early step to conduct an empirical study towards understanding the challenges and pain points of mobile game testing process at our industrial partner NetEase Games. Specifically, we first conduct a survey from the mobile test development team at NetEase Games via both scrum interviews and questionnaires. We found that accurate and effective GUI widget detection for mobile games could be the pillar to boost the automation of mobile game testing and other downstream analysis tasks in practice.
@inproceedings{paperbot6458,
title = {An empirical study of GUI widget detection for industrial mobile games},
author = {Jiaming Ye and Ke Chen and Xiaofei Xie and Lei Ma and Ruochen Huang and Yingfeng Chen and Yinxing Xue and Jianjun Zhao},
booktitle = {FSE},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1145/3468264.3473935}
}