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Towards a Mobile Application Performance Benchmark

Authors:
Florian Rösler
André Nitze
Andreas Schmietendorf

Keywords: Mobile applications; benchmark; software quality; performance efficiency

Abstract:
In this work-in-progress paper, we present our current findings concerning performance efficiency in cross-platform mobile applications (apps) and how they can contribute to a general benchmarking approach. At first, several test cases for evaluating performance of mobile applications are described. Then, the performance efficiency of native and hybrid apps is compared on a mobile device using IBM Worklight. The results show that hybrid applications still suffer performance issues in comparison to native apps. The performance deviations and reasons for them are discussed and evaluated. It is concluded that the performance of mobile applications is crucial to user experience and satisfaction. Software quality should thus not be sacrificed, despite the economic attractiveness of hybrid development approaches. The results provide a starting point for a general approach to benchmark mobile application performance, which is discussed in the end.

Pages: 55 to 59

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: July 20, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-361-2

Location: Paris, France

Dates: from July 20, 2014 to July 24, 2014