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Using GUI ripping for automated testing of Android applications

Authors:

Domenico Amalfitano,

Anna Rita Fasolino,

Porfirio Tramontana,

Salvatore De Carmine,

Atif M. MemonAuthors Info & Claims

ASE '12: Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Pages 258 - 261

https://doi.org/10.1145/2351676.2351717

Published: 03 September 2012 Publication History

Abstract

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.

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Using GUI ripping for automated testing of Android applications
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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ASE '12: Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

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DOI:10.1145/2351676

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