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Guided, stochastic model-based GUI testing of Android apps
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Mobile apps are ubiquitous, operate in complex environments and are developed under the time-to-market pressure. Ensuring their correctness and reliability thus becomes an important challenge. This paper introduces Stoat, a novel guided approach to perform stochastic model-based testing on Android apps. Stoat operates in two phases: (1) Given an app as input, it uses dynamic analysis enhanced by a weighted UI exploration strategy and static analysis to reverse engineer a stochastic model of the app's GUI interactions; and (2) it adapts Gibbs sampling to iteratively mutate/refine the stochastic model and guides test generation from the mutated models toward achieving high code and model coverage and exhibiting diverse sequences. During testing, system-level events are randomly injected to further enhance the testing effectiveness.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Su, T., Meng, G., Chen, Y., Wu, K., Yang, W., Yao, Y., Pu, G., Liu, Y., & Su, Z.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2017-08-21
- Pages
- 245-256
- OpenAlex
- W2740742367
- Cited by
- 371
- References
- 36
- FWCI
- 23.94
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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