Graph-aided directed testing of Android applications for checking runtime privacy behaviours

• Main Authors: CHAN, Joseph Joo Keng, JIANG, Lingxiao, TAN, Kiat Wee, BALAN, Rajesh Krishna
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Automated Mobile Application Testing; Mobile Privacy; Information Security; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3440; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4441/viewcontent/icse16ast_directedapptest__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

While automated testing of mobile applications is very useful for checking run-time behaviours and specifications, its capability in discovering issues in apps is often limited in practice due to long testing time. A common practice is to randomly and exhaustively explore the whole app test space, w...