Minimizing GUI event traces

Lazaro Clapp, Osbert Bastani, Saswat Anand, Alex Aiken

Abstract

GUI input generation tools for Android apps, such as Android's Monkey, are useful for automatically producing test inputs, but these tests are generally orders of magnitude larger than necessary, making them difficult for humans to understand. We present a technique for minimizing the output of such tools. Our technique accounts for the non-deterministic behavior of mobile apps, producing small event traces that reach a desired activity with high probability.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Clapp-al:FSE16,
  author    = {Lazaro Clapp and
               Osbert Bastani and
               Saswat Anand and
               Alex Aiken},
  title     = {Minimizing {GUI} event traces},
  booktitle = {FSE},
  pages     = {422--434},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2016},
}

Minimizing GUI event traces

Abstract

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