MOBILESoft 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
co-located with ICSE 2026
Sun 12 Apr 2026 12:00 - 12:15 at Oceania IX - Session 1

Ensuring mobile app accessibility is essential for inclusive user experiences and compliance with standards such as the WCAG 2.2. However, many developers lack familiarity with accessibility guidelines, and automated testing or developer-authored test suites often fail to detect critical issues. This paper presents luisa, a framework for mutation testing that deliberately introduces accessibility issues into SwiftUI codebases. luisa automatically modifies interface components to remove or alter accessibility features, generating mutants that simulate common violations of WCAG 2.2 principles. These mutants enable developers to assess the fault-detection capability of accessibility testing tools and test suites, while also serving as educational examples for understanding the impact of poor accessibility practices. We define and implement 12 accessibility mutation operators derived from WCAG success criteria and evaluate them on open-source iOS applications. Results show that luisa effectively introduces realistic accessibility defects that are often missed by existing automated tools, demonstrating its potential to improve accessibility testing practices in iOS development.

Sun 12 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

11:00 - 12:30
11:00
30m
Keynote
Datasets, Static analysis, and AI for Mobile App Analysis
Research Track
Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg
11:30
15m
Research paper
Mapping the Patent Frontier of On-Device LLMs in Mobile Software Engineering
Research Track
Mohamad Kassab Boston University
11:45
15m
Research paper
An Empirical Evaluation of RAG for Accessibility-Aware Android Code Generation
Research Track
Ribamar Souza Federal University of Ceará, Daniel Mesquita Feijó Rabelo Federal University of Ceará, Windson Viana Federal University of Ceará
12:00
15m
Short-paper
Deliberately Introducing Accessibility Issues in SwiftUI Components for Mutation Testing
Research Track
Erick Riso Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Breno Miranda Federal University of Pernambuco, Kiev Gama Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
12:15
15m
Full-paper
A Methodology for Generating Mobile Applications Through Large Language Models
Research Track
William Niemiec Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Anderson Rocha Tavares Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Érika Fernandes Cota Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul