International Business Machines Corporation

Gegi Thomas

Marco Pistoia

Joseph W Ligman

John J Ponzo

Omer Tripp

Stephen Peter Wood

Paul Christesten Castro

Yun-Wu Huang

Peter Kissa

Jayaram Kallapalayam Radhakrishnan

Ashish Verma

Colin Sutcher-Shepard

A method and method for testing an application includes performing a static analysis of metadata of coding of an application, using a test application program executed by a processor on a computer. Available user interface states are simulated based on the static analysis. A configuration file of the application is accessed and parsed to enumerate states possible for the application. A coverage metric is calculated for the application based on a number of states reached by the simulating and a number of states possible.

Building coverage metrics and testing strategies for mobile testing via view enumeration

Techniques regarding determining hyperparameters for a differentially private federated learning process are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a hyperparameter advisor component that determines a hyperparameter for a model of a differentially private federated learning process based on a defined numeric relationship between a privacy budget, a learning rate schedule, and a batch size.

Hyperparameter determination for a differentially private federated learning process

A method for tracking user interactions with an application includes: storing the application in a memory of a mobile device, the application being associated with an instrumented widget and a library, the widget including an event logger; executing the application and the widget; receiving, through a user interface of the mobile device, an input corresponding to the event logger of the widget; logging, by the library, the input corresponding to the event logger of the widget in the memory of the mobile device; filtering a plurality of events, including the input corresponding to the event logger of the widget, to manage what data is reported to a monitor; and transmitting the input corresponding to the event logger of the widget to a server as monitored data.

Widget provisioning of user experience analytics and user interface / application management

A method of operating a mobile device includes displaying a user interface as an image, the user interface being composed of a plurality of widgets, storing a privacy policy identifying at least one of the widgets, capturing a screenshot image corresponding to the screenshot image, excluding the at least one of the widgets from the screenshot image to create a modified screenshot image, and transmitting the modified screenshot image over a network to a monitoring server.

Privacy-preserving user-experience monitoring

A method and system for virtualizing mobile device sensors includes requesting from a first mobile device a virtual connection with a mobile device having a specific type of sensor, configuring an operating system of the first mobile device to allow an application program to accept data by proxy from the available sensor of the second mobile device; receiving a response from a second mobile device having the sensor, establishing a trusted temporary communication connection between the first and second mobile devices, sending a control signal from an application program on the first mobile device to the second mobile for operating the sensor on the second mobile device and receiving device sensor data from the sensor on the second mobile device.

System, method and apparatus for sensor virtualization in mobile devices

A method includes storing an application in a memory of a mobile device, wherein the application is associated with a widget including an event logger and a library managing the widget, executing, by the mobile device, the application and the widget, receiving, through a user interface of the mobile device, an input corresponding to the event logger of the widget, logging, by the library, the input corresponding to the event logger of the widget in the memory of the mobile device, and reporting, by the library, the input corresponding to the event logger of the widget to a remote monitoring server as monitored data.

A method and system for virtualizing mobile device sensors includes requesting from a first mobile device a virtual connection with a mobile device having a specific type of sensor, receiving a response from a second mobile device having the sensor, establishing a trusted temporary communication connection between the first and second mobile devices, sending a control signal from an application program on the first mobile device to the second mobile for operating the sensor on the second mobile device and receiving device sensor data from the sensor on the second mobile device. The operating system of the first mobile device is coupled with the application program by a virtual machine monitor running on the first mobile device such that the first mobile device is a host machine and the second mobile device is a guest machine.

A method includes analyzing, on a first computing device, data from second computing device(s) of user interaction with a user interface of an application previously executed on the second computing device(s). The data corresponds to events caused by the user interaction with the user interface of the application. The first computing device generates representation(s) of the analyzed data and outputs the representation(s) of the user interaction. Another method includes capturing and logging, by a computing device, events caused by user interaction with a user interface of an application when the application is executed on the computing device. In response to a trigger, data comprising the captured and logged events is sent toward another computing device. Another method includes instrumenting a measurement library into an application to create an instrumented version of the application, and sending the instrumented application to computing device(s). Methods, apparatus, software, and computer program products are disclosed.

Automatically capturing user interactions and evaluating user interfaces in software programs using field testing

A method of collaboratively executing a task using first to N-th mobile devices in an ad-hoc network includes determining collaborative mobile devices out of the second to N-th mobile devices, receiving information corresponding to the collaborative mobile devices, dividing the task into first to M-th sub tasks, assigning each of the first to M-th sub tasks to at least one of the collaborative mobile devices, requesting executions of the first to M-th sub tasks to the collaborative mobile devices, and receiving execution results of the first to M-th sub tasks from the collaborative mobile devices. M and N are integers greater than one.

System, method and apparatus for ad-hoc utilization of available resources across mobile devices

An embodiment includes causing elements to be recognized that correspond to one or more browser-supported programming languages in an application. The recognized elements are those elements that can be converted to native user interface elements in the operating system and rendered on a display of a computing device. The elements in the one or more browser-supported programming languages are converted to native user interface elements. The native user interface elements are caused to be rendered on the display of the computing device. Methods, apparatus, software, and computer program products are disclosed.

Automatically rendering web and/or hybrid applications natively in parallel

Generating a set of single collapsed user interface interaction sequence controls for an application is provided. A single collapsed user interface interaction control is generated for one or more identified user interface interaction sequences that are collapsible within the application. A customized version of the application is generated for a plurality of users associated with a plurality of registered client devices by inserting each generated single collapsed user interface interaction sequence control into the application.

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Gegi Thomas