A GUI Crawling-Based Technique for Android Mobile Application Testing

Amalfitano, Domenico; Fasolino, Anna Rita; Tramontana, Porfirio

doi:10.1109/icstw.2011.77

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“…Our research is related to the approaches described in [22][23] for testing Android apps. In [22], a crawling-based approach that leverages completely random inputs is proposed to generate unique test cases.…”

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A whitebox approach for automated security testing of Android applications on the cloud

Mahmood¹,

Esfahani²,

Kacem³

et al. 2012

2012 7th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST)

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Abstract-By changing the way software is delivered to endusers, markets for mobile apps create a false sense of security: apps are downloaded from a market that can potentially be regulated. In practice, this is far from truth and instead, there has been evidence that security is not one of the primary design tenets for the mobile app stores. Recent studies have indicated mobile markets are harboring apps that are either malicious or vulnerable leading to compromises of millions of devices. The key technical obstacle for the organizations overseeing these markets is the lack of practical and automated mechanisms to assess the security of mobile apps, given that thousands of apps are added and updated on a daily basis. In this paper, we provide an overview of a multi-faceted project targeted at automatically testing the security and robustness of Android apps in a scalable manner. We describe an Android-specific program analysis technique capable of generating a large number of test cases for fuzzing an app, as well as a test bed that given the generated test cases, executes them in parallel on numerous emulated Androids running on the cloud.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In [22], a crawling-based approach that leverages completely random inputs is proposed to generate unique test cases. [23] presents a random approach for generating GUI tests and uses the Android Monkey platform to execute them.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A whitebox approach for automated security testing of Android applications on the cloud

Mahmood¹,

Esfahani²,

Kacem³

et al. 2012

2012 7th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST)

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“…However, most software testing is performed towards checking the quality of software or apps but recently security testing has gained popularity and has proved its importance [11]. However, testing mobile application is not a straight forward task due to variety of inputs and heterogeneity of the technologies [12].…”

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“…The test cases generated in this model could be used by a test automation machine. Another approach [12] uses a tool to explore the application GUI and reconstructs a GUI tree model by simulating real user events. [12] builds the GUI model automatically and therefore it is a better fit for GUI testing automation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Another approach [12] uses a tool to explore the application GUI and reconstructs a GUI tree model by simulating real user events. [12] builds the GUI model automatically and therefore it is a better fit for GUI testing automation. Yet, since the test cases derivation is based on a pre-defined exploration technique, it may not fulfill some exploration requirements.…”

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Behavioral Analysis of Android Applications Using Automated Instrumentation

Karami

Elsabagh

Najafiborazjani

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Software Security and Reliability Companion

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Abstract-Google's Android operating system has become one the most popular operating system for hand-held devices. Due to its ubiquitous use, open source nature and wide-spread popularity, it has become the target of recent mobile malware.In this paper, we present our efforts on effective security inspection mechanisms for identification of malicious applications for Android mobile applications. To achieve that, we developed a comprehensive software inspection framework. Moreover, to identify potential software reliability flaws and to trigger malware, we develop a transparent instrumentation system for automating user interactions with an Android application that does not require source code. Additionally, for run-time behavior analysis of an application, we monitor the I/O system calls generated the by application under monitoring to the underlying Linux kernel. As a case study, we present two Android malware samples found in the wild to experimentally evaluate the applicability of our proposed system for uncovering potential malicious activities.

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Automated parallel GUI testing as a service for mobile applications

Ali

Maghawry

Badr

2018

J Software Evolu Process

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Recently, testing mobile applications is gaining much attention due to the widespread of smartphones and the tremendous number of mobile applications development. It is essential to test mobile applications before being released for the public use. Graphical user interface (GUI) testing is a type of mobile applications testing conducted to ensure the proper functionality of the GUI components. Typically, GUI testing requires a lot of effort and time whether manual or automatic. Cloud computing is an emerging technology that can be used in the software engineering field to overcome the defects of the traditional testing approaches by using cloud computing resources. As a result, testing‐as‐a‐service is introduced as a service model that conducts all testing activities in a fully automated manner. In this paper, a system for mobile applications GUI testing based on testing‐as‐a‐service architecture is proposed. The proposed system performs all testing activities including automatic test case generation and simultaneous test execution on multiple virtual nodes for testing Android‐based applications. The proposed system reduces testing time and meets fast time‐to market constraint of mobile applications. Moreover, the proposed system architecture addresses many issues such as maximizing resource utilization, continuous monitoring to ensure system reliability, and applying fault‐tolerance approach to handle occurrence of any failure.

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A GUI Crawling-Based Technique for Android Mobile Application Testing

Cited by 153 publications

References 13 publications

A whitebox approach for automated security testing of Android applications on the cloud

A whitebox approach for automated security testing of Android applications on the cloud

Behavioral Analysis of Android Applications Using Automated Instrumentation

Automated parallel GUI testing as a service for mobile applications

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