RERAN: Timing- and touch-sensitive record and replay for Android

Gómez, Lorenzo Martínez; Neamtiu, Iulian; Azim, Tanzirul; Millstein, Todd

doi:10.1109/icse.2013.6606553

Cited by 188 publications

(156 citation statements)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

155

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…We created accounts for testing with each of these apps, but manually logging into each version is prohibitively expensive. We avoided this by recording the login events in one version and replaying the events in other versions using RERAN [28]. We perform both record and replay of login actions on the same device to ensure a consistent UI layout.…”

Section: Interaction With Appsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bug Fixes, Improvements, ... and Privacy Leaks - A Longitudinal Study of PII Leaks Across Android App Versions

Ren

Lindorfer

Dubois

et al. 2018

Proceedings 2018 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract-Is mobile privacy getting better or worse over time? In this paper, we address this question by studying privacy leaks from historical and current versions of 512 popular Android apps, covering 7,665 app releases over 8 years of app version history. Through automated and scripted interaction with apps and analysis of the network traffic they generate on real mobile devices, we identify how privacy changes over time for individual apps and in aggregate. We find several trends that include increased collection of personally identifiable information (PII) across app versions, slow adoption of HTTPS to secure the information sent to other parties, and a large number of third parties being able to link user activity and locations across apps. Interestingly, while privacy is getting worse in aggregate, we find that the privacy risk of individual apps varies greatly over time, and a substantial fraction of apps see little change or even improvement in privacy. Given these trends, we propose metrics for quantifying privacy risk and for providing this risk assessment proactively to help users balance the risks and benefits of installing new versions of apps.

show abstract

Section: Interaction With Appsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bug Fixes, Improvements, ... and Privacy Leaks - A Longitudinal Study of PII Leaks Across Android App Versions

Ren

Lindorfer

Dubois

et al. 2018

Proceedings 2018 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…To evaluate the Scroll phase of the browser governor, we have recorded one long scroll gesture using the reran [16] tool and replayed it for all the web pages under test. As mentioned in Section 6.1, the Touch phase usually precedes the Scroll phase.…”

Section: Scroll Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

Phase-Aware Web Browser Power Management on HMP Platforms

Peters

Park

Clifford

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Supercomputing

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Over the last years, web browsing has been steadily shifting from desktop computers to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. However, mobile browsers available today have mainly focused on performance rather than power consumption, although the battery life of a mobile device is one of the most important usability metrics. This is because many of these browsers have originated in the desktop domain and have been ported to the mobile domain. Such browsers have multiple power hungry components such as the rendering engine, and the JavaScript engine, and generate high workload without considering the capabilities and the power consumption characteristics of the underlying hardware platform. Also, the lack of coordination between a browser application and the power manager in the operating system (such as Android) results in poor power savings. In this paper, we propose a power manager that takes into account the internal state of a browser -that we refer to as a phase -and show with Google's Chrome running on Android that up to 57.4% more energy can be saved over Android's default power managers. We implemented and evaluated our technique on a heterogeneous multi-processing (HMP) ARM big.LITTLE platform such as the ones found in most modern smartphones.

show abstract

“…It captures input event sent from the phone to the OS of a user session and after that allows the sequence of events to be sent into the phone programmatically at high level. Reran captures the low level events and replays them that are triggered on the phone, which allows it to capture and playback GUI events such as touchscreen gestures, and input sensors on device [15]. EvoDroid is used to test system of Android apps.…”

Section: Automated Testing Tools For Mobile Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comparative Analysis of Quality Assurance of Mobile Applications using Automated Testing Tools

Anjum¹,

Babar²,

Jehanzeb³

et al. 2017

ijacsa

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract-Use of mobile applications are trending these days due to adoption of handheld mobile devices with operating systems such as Android, iOS and Windows. Delivering quality mobile apps is as important as in any other web or desktop application. Simplification and ease of quality assurance or evaluation in mobile devices is achieved by using automated testing tools. These tools have been evaluated for their features, platforms, code coverage, and efficiency. However, they have not been evaluated and compared to each other for different quality attributes they can enhance in the apps under test. This research study aims to evaluate different testing tools focusing on identifying quality factors they aid to achieve in the apps under test. Furthermore, it aims to measure overall trends of essential quality factors achieved using automated testing tools. The findings of this study are beneficial to the practitioners and researchers. The practitioners need to look up for specific tools which aid them to assure the desired quality factors in the apps under test. The researchers may base their studies on the findings of this study to propose solutions or revise existing tools in order to achieve maximum number of critical quality attributes in the app under test. This study revealed that the trend of automated testing is high on usability, correctness and robustness. Moreover, the trend is average on testability and performance. However, for assurance of extensibility, maintainability, scalability, and platform compatibility, only a few tools are available.

show abstract

RERAN: Timing- and touch-sensitive record and replay for Android

Cited by 188 publications

References 11 publications

Bug Fixes, Improvements, ... and Privacy Leaks - A Longitudinal Study of PII Leaks Across Android App Versions

Bug Fixes, Improvements, ... and Privacy Leaks - A Longitudinal Study of PII Leaks Across Android App Versions

Phase-Aware Web Browser Power Management on HMP Platforms

A Comparative Analysis of Quality Assurance of Mobile Applications using Automated Testing Tools

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About