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ICSE 2018

Automated repair of mobile friendly problems in web pages

Sonal Mahajan, Negarsadat Abolhassani, Phil McMinn, William G. J. Halfond

PDFDOI 10.1145/3180155.3180262dblp

Abstract

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.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mahajan-al:ICSE18,
  author    = {Sonal Mahajan and
               Negarsadat Abolhassani and
               Phil McMinn and
               William G. J. Halfond},
  title     = {Automated repair of mobile friendly problems in web pages},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {140--150},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2018},
}

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