Self-Healing for Mobile Applications

Authors

  • Ion Ivan Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
  • Catalin Boja Bucharest University of Economic Studies
  • Alin Zamfiroiu Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Keywords:

mobile, application, self-healing, quality, software metric, regeneration

Abstract

The reliability and security of a software application are two of the most important software quality characteristics because they describe the ability of the software to run without failures and to protect user data. Mobile applications concur with desktop applications in terms of rich interfaces and functionalities and are becoming one the most used type of software applications. Based on the “anytime, anywhere” paradigm, mobile applications must provide special measures to avoid failures and to preserve a high level of reliability and security because mobile operating systems provide limited or none access to administrative or system tools that will allow a user with an IT background to access temporary or persistent data. A high level of software reliability is directly influenced by a low level of failures. We there-fore describe self-healing as a required quality characteristic for mobile applications and we propose a metric for measuring it. This approach is included in the general context of mobile applications quality and the papers describes types of mobile applications, their development cycle and features that are particular to mobile applications quality.

Author Biographies

Ion Ivan, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies

Economic Informatics Department

Catalin Boja, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Economic Informatics and Cybernetics Department

Alin Zamfiroiu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Economic Informatics and Cybernetics Department

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Published

2012-06-30

How to Cite

Ivan, I., Boja, C., & Zamfiroiu, A. (2012). Self-Healing for Mobile Applications. Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems, 4(2), 96-106. Retrieved from http://jmeds.eu/index.php/jmeds/article/view/Self-Healing_for_Mobile_Applications

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