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Mobile applications are increasingly location-based; i.e. their functionality is becoming both interactive and context-aware. Combined with an overall increase in the complexity of the devices delivering such services, and a growth in the number of possible networks that they can participate in, these systems require more than just the average approach to testing. The principles and practices of agile testing may serve development teams well here; since the systems ultimately end up being developed and deployed in an iterative and evolutionary manner. In this paper, we explore a testing framework for location-based services that can be employed test-first and yet also offers the full range of non-functional tests that these applications require.
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Yu, J., Tappenden, A., Geras, A., Smith, M., Miller, J. (2005). Agile Testing of Location Based Services. In: Baumeister, H., Marchesi, M., Holcombe, M. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3556. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11499053_36
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