Mobile GUI Testing Fragility: A Study on Open-Source Android Applications

Model-driven engineering support for software deployment on distributed platforms: looking backward, looking forward!

MCon: Building an Elastic Cloud for Android Applications with Framework Consolidation

Cloud execution of mobile apps—running unmodified apps inside full mobile OSes on commodity servers—is gaining adoption for uses such as GUI agent training and large-scale app testing. These workloads are both temporally dynamic (from second-scale agent interactions to hour-long tests) and highly bursty (up to hundreds...

Development and Deployment of Microservice-Based Architecture System for Efficient Application Loading in Cloud Environments

Cloud-based applications require architectures that can maintain efficient application loading and performance as workload increases. This study developed and experimentally evaluated three functionally equivalent e-commerce implementations: Monolithic, Baseline Microservices, and Proposed Microservices architectures....

OMBench: Taming Data Management Requirements in Cloud-Native Applications

This work presents OMBench through a decision-and-evaluation toolkit with rich visualization features so that users can navigate a set of candidate platforms to meet data management requirements and make informed decisions about their guarantees and resource implications.

Testing Custom Control Planes Without the Cluster

Kamera is presented, a system for testing CCPs that uses partial simulation to execute the code of multiple interacting controllers against a lightweight model of the Kubernetes runtime and achieves a 1,781× speedup over existing cluster-based controller testing approaches.

Serverless Functions in Cloud–Edge Environments: A Comprehensive Critical Review and Taxonomy

An extensive critical review of serverless functions in cloud–edge environments reveals that cloud–edge serverless systems need accountable placement, state-aware workflows, reproducible benchmarking, trustworthy orchestration, and carbon-aware lifecycle control, which can be achieved only by going beyond latency and e...