Using GUI ripping for automated testing of Android applications

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 Android...

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Main Authors: Amalfitano, Domenico, Fasolino, Anna Rita, Tramontana, Porfirio, De Carmine, Salvatore, Memon, Atif M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Android
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software verification and validation > Software defect analysis > Software testing and debugging
Testing Automation
Testing Tools
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Summary: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.
DOI:10.1145/2351676.2351717