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Using GUI ripping for automated testing of Android applications

Domenico Amalfitano, Anna Rita Fasolino, Porfirio Tramontana, Salvatore De Carmine, Atif M. Memon

PDFDOI 10.1145/2351676.2351717dblp

Abstract

We present AndroidRipper, an automated technique that tests Android apps via their Graphical User Interface (GUI). AndroidRipper is based on a user-interface driven ripper that automatically explores the app’s GUI with the aim of exercising the application in a structured manner. We evaluate AndroidRipper on an open-source Android app. Our results show that our GUI-based test cases are able to detect severe, previously unknown, faults in the underlying code, and the structured exploration outperforms a random approach.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Amalfitano-al:ASE12,
  author    = {Domenico Amalfitano and
               Anna Rita Fasolino and
               Porfirio Tramontana and
               Salvatore De Carmine and
               Atif M. Memon},
  title     = {Using {GUI} ripping for automated testing of Android applications},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {258--261},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2012},
}

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