As the development of Android mobile applications continues to grow and to follow up its high increase in demand and market share, there is a need for automating the evaluation of Graphical Mobile User Interfaces (GMUI) to detect any associated defects as they are perceived to lead to bad overall usability. Although, there is growth in research targeting the assessment of mobile user interfaces, there is a lack of studies assessing their impact on quality. The goal of this work is to analyze the impact of defects on the maintainability of user interfaces by studying the connection between the existence of defects and the change-proneness of user interfaces. We empirically study the impact of 8 aesthetics defects in 56 releases of 5 Android applications and examine the diffuseness of GMUI defects throughout mobile apps evolution. Then, we investigate whether infected classes are changed more frequently, and have a larger change-size than other non-infected classes in terms of Change Frequency (CF) and Change-Size (CS). Moreover, we studied the survivability and co-occurrences of GMUI defects in order to prioritize their corrections. Our empirical validation confirms that the infected user interfaces are more prone to undergo many changes than other user interfaces, and there are some severe aesthetic defects still exists even after makingmany improvements in the code that may need more maintenance efforts.

随着Android移动应用程序的发展不断增长，并跟随其在需求和市场份额方面的高增长，有必要对图形移动用户界面（GMUI）进行自动化评估，以发现可能导致缺陷的任何相关缺陷。整体可用性差。尽管针对移动用户界面评估的研究正在增长，但是缺乏评估其对质量影响的研究。这项工作的目的是通过研究缺陷的存在与用户界面的更改倾向之间的联系来分析缺陷对用户界面可维护性的影响。我们通过经验研究了5个Android应用程序的56个发行版中8个美学缺陷的影响，并研究了GMUI缺陷在整个移动应用程序发展过程中的扩散。然后，我们调查了受感染类别是否更频繁地进行更改，并且在更改频率（CF）和更改大小（CS）方面，其更改大小比其他未受感染的类别大。此外，我们研究了GMUI缺陷的可生存性和共现性，以便优先进行纠正。我们的经验验证证实，受感染的用户界面比其他用户界面更容易发生许多更改，并且即使在代码中进行了许多改进之后，仍然可能存在一些严重的美学缺陷，这可能需要更多的维护工作。我们研究了GMUI缺陷的可生存性和共现性，以便优先进行纠正。我们的经验验证证实，受感染的用户界面比其他用户界面更容易发生许多更改，并且即使在代码中进行了许多改进之后，仍然可能存在一些严重的美学缺陷，这可能需要更多的维护工作。我们研究了GMUI缺陷的可生存性和共现性，以便优先进行纠正。我们的经验验证证实，受感染的用户界面比其他用户界面更容易发生许多更改，即使在代码中进行了许多改进之后，仍然需要维护一些工作，仍然存在一些严重的美学缺陷。