Multiple-entry testing of Android applications by constructing activity launching contexts

Jiwei Yan, Hao Liu, Linjie Pan, Jun Yan, Jian Zhang, Bin Liang

Abstract

Existing GUI testing approaches of Android apps usually test apps from a single entry. In this way, the marginal activities far away from the default entry are difficult to be covered. The marginal activities may fail to be launched due to requiring a great number of activity transitions or involving complex user operations, leading to uneven coverage on activity components. Besides, since the test space of GUI programs is infinite, it is difficult to test activities under complete launching contexts using single-entry testing approaches.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Yan-al:ICSE20,
  author    = {Jiwei Yan and
               Hao Liu and
               Linjie Pan and
               Jun Yan and
               Jian Zhang and
               Bin Liang},
  title     = {Multiple-entry testing of Android applications by constructing activity launching contexts},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {457--468},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2020},
}

Multiple-entry testing of Android applications by constructing activity launching contexts

Abstract

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