Mobile devices have become a primary means of accessing the Internet. Unfortunately, many websites are not designed to be mobile friendly. This results in problems such as unreadable text, cluttered navigation, and content overflowing a device’s viewport; all of which can lead to a frustrating and poor user experience. Existing techniques are limited in helping developers repair these mobile friendly problems. To address this limitation of prior work, we designed a novel automated approach for repairing mobile friendly problems in web pages. Our empirical evaluation showed that our approach was able to successfully resolve mobile friendly problems in 95% of ... [more] the evaluation subjects. In a user study, participants preferred our repaired versions of the subjects and also considered the repaired pages to be more readable than the originals.

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@inproceedings{Mahajan2018,
  author    = "Mahajan, Sonal and Abolhassani, Negarsadat and McMinn, Phil and Halfond, William G.J.",
  title     = "Automated Repair of Mobile Friendly Problems in Web Pages",
  booktitle = "International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018)",
  pages     = "140--150",
  year      = "2018",
  publisher = "ACM"
}