Towards Automatic Consistency Checking between Web Application and its Mobile Application

With the increasing usage of mobile devices in daily life, a lot of websites delivered another mobile application version of application with the same services. If the mobile application is inconsistent with the web application, it may imply possible error or misleading information in the mobile application. This paper proposes an approach for automatic consistency checking between mobile application and its web application. Our approach starts from the generation of page and link information by crawling content from web application and simulating user actions in Android application. Page matching and consistency checking algorithms are proposed and used to find out inconsistency in page, element and link. The validation tool is used in 3 mobile application containing more than 300 pages. The result shows that our approach can find out inconsistency with acceptable precision and recall. Keywords-Consistency checking, Black-Box, Mobile Application