Automated repair of mobile friendly problems in web pages

Mobile devices have become a primary means of accessing the Internet. Unfortunately, many websites are not designed to be mobile friendly. This results in problems such as unreadable text, cluttered navigation, and content overflowing a device's viewport; all of which can lead to a frustrating...

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Published in:2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) pp. 140 - 150
Main Authors: Mahajan, Sonai, Abolhassani, Negarsadat, McMinn, Phil, Halfond, William G. J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 27.05.2018
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
automated repair
Cascading style sheets
Layout
Maintenance engineering
Mobile Friendly Problems
Mobile handsets
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Organizations
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Search-based software engineering
web apps
Web pages
mobile friendly problems
web apps
automated repair
ISBN:9781450356381, 1450356389
ISSN:1558-1225
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Summary:Mobile devices have become a primary means of accessing the Internet. Unfortunately, many websites are not designed to be mobile friendly. This results in problems such as unreadable text, cluttered navigation, and content overflowing a device's viewport; all of which can lead to a frustrating and poor user experience. Existing techniques are limited in helping developers repair these mobile friendly problems. To address this limitation of prior work, we designed a novel automated approach for repairing mobile friendly problems in web pages. Our empirical evaluation showed that our approach was able to successfully resolve mobile friendly problems in 95% of the evaluation subjects. In a user study, participants preferred our repaired versions of the subjects and also considered the repaired pages to be more readable than the originals.
ISBN:9781450356381
1450356389
ISSN:1558-1225
DOI:10.1145/3180155.3180262