CrashScope: A Practical Tool for Automated Testing of Android Applications
Abstract
Unique challenges arise when testing mobile applications due to their prevailing event-driven nature and complex contextual features (e.g. sensors, notifications). Current automated input generation approaches for Android apps are typically not practical for developers to use due to required instrumentation or platform dependence and generally do not effectively exercise contextual features. To better support developers in mobile testing tasks, in this demo we present a novel, automated tool called CrashScope. This tool explores a given Android app using systematic input generation, according to several strategies informed by static and dynamic analyses, with the intrinsic goal of triggering crashes. When a crash is detected, CrashScope generates an augmented crash report containing screenshots, detailed crash reproduction steps, the captured exception stack trace, and a fully replayable script that automatically reproduces the crash on a target device(s). Results of preliminary studies show that CrashScope is able to uncover about as many crashes as other state of the art tools, while providing detailed useful crash reports and test scripts to developers. Website: www.crashscope-android.com/crashscope-home Video url: https://youtu.be/ii6S1JF6xDw
Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.06428,
title = {CrashScope: A Practical Tool for Automated Testing of Android Applications},
author = {Kevin Moran and Mario Linares-Vasquez and Carlos Bernal-Cardenas and Christopher Vendome and Denys Poshyvanyk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.06428},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
4 pages, Accepted in the Proceedings of 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'17). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1706.01130