Mobile software testing and evaluation on real devices in higher education: An Irish Open Device Lab Case Study

Testing and evaluation on real devices are a requisite for mobile development, but this is still not mainstream practice. Software testing is not well accepted among students, being perceived as a boring topic or useless, so, to teach software testing in an effective way it's necessary to use r...

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Autores: Paiva Godinho, Raquel, Contreras, Ruth S. (Ruth Sofhía), Horgan, Claire
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:UVic-UCC
Repositorio:RiUVic. Repositori institucional de la UVic-UCC
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spelling Mobile software testing and evaluation on real devices in higher education: An Irish Open Device Lab Case StudyPaiva Godinho, RaquelContreras, Ruth S. (Ruth Sofhía)Horgan, ClaireEnsenyament universitariAgents mòbils (Programari)Assaigs (Tecnologia)Interacció persona -- ordinadorTesting and evaluation on real devices are a requisite for mobile development, but this is still not mainstream practice. Software testing is not well accepted among students, being perceived as a boring topic or useless, so, to teach software testing in an effective way it's necessary to use real-life experimentation to show their importance. This study is part of comprehensive research, which aims to explain Open Device Labs (ODLs); a grass-roots community movement from the Web development industry which later reached the game and academic sector. The movement aims to democratize tests on real devices offering access to mobile devices as a free service to local tech communities. Currently, there are 149 labs located in 34 countries. Educational institutions have also established ODLs, but there is little and superficial information about them. This study presents an intrinsic qualitative case study about the IT Tralee ODL, one of the few labs hosted by a higher education institution. We used an inductive approach for data analysis which was based on online documents, interviews, direct observation, participant observation, and field notes. The findings contribute to understanding how an ODL hosted by an educational institution works, as well as its main issues and benefits.Laboratório de Pesquisa em Tecnologias da Informação e da Comunicação, da Escola de Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Departament de Comunicació2025202520252021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/publishedVersionapplication/pdf30 p.application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10854/8643reponame:RiUVic. Repositori institucional de la UVic-UCCinstname:UVic-UCCInglésAquest document està subjecte a aquesta llicència Creative Commonshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.cainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dspace.uvic.cat:10854/86432026-06-07T19:15:21Z
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title Mobile software testing and evaluation on real devices in higher education: An Irish Open Device Lab Case Study
spellingShingle Mobile software testing and evaluation on real devices in higher education: An Irish Open Device Lab Case Study
Paiva Godinho, Raquel
Ensenyament universitari
Agents mòbils (Programari)
Assaigs (Tecnologia)
Interacció persona -- ordinador
title_short Mobile software testing and evaluation on real devices in higher education: An Irish Open Device Lab Case Study
title_full Mobile software testing and evaluation on real devices in higher education: An Irish Open Device Lab Case Study
title_fullStr Mobile software testing and evaluation on real devices in higher education: An Irish Open Device Lab Case Study
title_full_unstemmed Mobile software testing and evaluation on real devices in higher education: An Irish Open Device Lab Case Study
title_sort Mobile software testing and evaluation on real devices in higher education: An Irish Open Device Lab Case Study
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Paiva Godinho, Raquel
Contreras, Ruth S. (Ruth Sofhía)
Horgan, Claire
author Paiva Godinho, Raquel
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Contreras, Ruth S. (Ruth Sofhía)
Horgan, Claire
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Horgan, Claire
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Departament de Comunicació
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ensenyament universitari
Agents mòbils (Programari)
Assaigs (Tecnologia)
Interacció persona -- ordinador
topic Ensenyament universitari
Agents mòbils (Programari)
Assaigs (Tecnologia)
Interacció persona -- ordinador
description Testing and evaluation on real devices are a requisite for mobile development, but this is still not mainstream practice. Software testing is not well accepted among students, being perceived as a boring topic or useless, so, to teach software testing in an effective way it's necessary to use real-life experimentation to show their importance. This study is part of comprehensive research, which aims to explain Open Device Labs (ODLs); a grass-roots community movement from the Web development industry which later reached the game and academic sector. The movement aims to democratize tests on real devices offering access to mobile devices as a free service to local tech communities. Currently, there are 149 labs located in 34 countries. Educational institutions have also established ODLs, but there is little and superficial information about them. This study presents an intrinsic qualitative case study about the IT Tralee ODL, one of the few labs hosted by a higher education institution. We used an inductive approach for data analysis which was based on online documents, interviews, direct observation, participant observation, and field notes. The findings contribute to understanding how an ODL hosted by an educational institution works, as well as its main issues and benefits.
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