Mobile Apps Engineering: Design, Development, Security, and Testing

The objective of this edited book is to gather best practices in the development and management of mobile apps projects. Mobile Apps Engineering aims to provide software engineering lecturers, students and researchers of mobile computing a starting point for developing successful mobile apps. To achieve these objectives, the book's contributors emphasize the essential concepts of the field, such as apps design, testing and security, with the intention of offering a compact, self-contained book which shall stimulate further research interest in the topic. The editors hope and believe that their efforts in bringing this book together can make mobile apps engineering an independent discipline inspired by traditional software engineering, but taking into account the new challenges posed by mobile computing.

本書的目標是收集開發和管理移動應用項目的最佳實踐。《移動應用工程》旨在為移動計算的軟件工程講師、學生和研究人員提供開發成功移動應用的起點。為了實現這些目標，本書的作者強調該領域的基本概念，如應用設計、測試和安全性，旨在提供一本簡潔、自成一體的書籍，以激發對該主題的進一步研究興趣。編者們希望並相信，他們將這本書匯集在一起的努力可以使移動應用工程成為一門獨立的學科，受到傳統軟件工程的啟發，同時考慮到移動計算所帶來的新挑戰。

Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui is a senior teaching fellow at the department of computer science, University College London. Previously, she worked as a software engineer at the UK's synchrotron. Prior to that, she was a researcher at Oxford University. Ghita is primarily interested in best practices in teaching/learning computer science in higher education. She is also interested in mobile apps technologies.

Faisal Tariq is a senior lecturer in the school of engineering at University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Prior to this, he worked at Queen Mary University of London and University of Bedfordshire. He is also serving as the editor of the Journal of Networks and Computer Applications. His research interest includes future wireless networks, technologies for smart city and mobile computing and communications.

Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui是倫敦大學學院（University College London）計算機科學系的高級教學助理。之前，她曾在英國同步加速器（UK's synchrotron）擔任軟體工程師，並在牛津大學擔任研究員。Ghita主要關注高等教育中教授/學習計算機科學的最佳實踐，同時對移動應用技術也感興趣。

Faisal Tariq是英國格拉斯哥大學工程學院的高級講師。在此之前，他曾在倫敦玛丽女王大学（Queen Mary University of London）和貝德福德郡大学（University of Bedfordshire）工作。他還擔任《網絡與計算機應用期刊》（Journal of Networks and Computer Applications）的編輯。他的研究興趣包括未來無線網絡、智慧城市技術以及移動計算和通信。