MobiGUITAR: Automated Model-Based Testing of Mobile Apps

As mobile devices become increasingly smarter and more powerful, so too must the engineering of their software. User-interface-driven system testing of these devices is gaining popularity, with each vendor releasing some automation tool. However, these tools are inappropriate for amateur programmers...

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Published in:IEEE software 2015-09, Vol.32 (5), p.53-59
Main Authors: Amalfitano, Domenico, Fasolino, Anna Rita, Tramontana, Porfirio, Ta, Bryan Dzung, Memon, Atif M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Android apps
android testing
Androids
Applications programs
Automation
Computer bugs
Computer programs
Graphical user interfaces
GUI testing
Humanoid robots
Mathematical models
MobiGUITAR
mobile apps
Mobile communication
Mobile communication systems
Run time (computers)
Software
Software engineering
Software testing
Studies
Test systems
User interface
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Summary:As mobile devices become increasingly smarter and more powerful, so too must the engineering of their software. User-interface-driven system testing of these devices is gaining popularity, with each vendor releasing some automation tool. However, these tools are inappropriate for amateur programmers, an increasing portion of app developers. MobiGUITAR (Mobile GUI Testing Framework) provides automated GUI-driven testing of Android apps. It's based on observation, extraction, and abstraction of GUI widgets' run-time state. The abstraction is a scalable state machine model that, together with test coverage criteria, provides a way to automatically generate test cases. When applied to four open-source Android apps, MobiGUITAR automatically generated and executed 7,711 test cases and reported 10 new bugs. Some bugs were Android-specific, stemming from the event- and activity-driven nature of Android.
ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2014.55