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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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vasquez , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Christopher Vendome , Denys Poshyvanyk

Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have become ubiquitous in today's modern computing landscape. The applications that run on these mobile devices (often referred to as "apps") have become a primary means of computing for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Kevin Moran

Intelligent Apps (iApps), equipped with in-App deep learning (DL) models, are emerging to offer stable DL inference services. However, App marketplaces have trouble auto testing iApps because the in-App model is black-box and couples with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Hao Wu , Yuhang Gong , Xiaopeng Ke , Hanzhong Liang , Minghao Li , Fengyuan Xu , Yunxin Liu , Sheng Zhong

The amount of Android malware has increased greatly during the last few years. Static analysis is widely used in detecting such malware by analyzing the code without execution. The effectiveness of current tools relies on the app model as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Mohsin Junaid , Donggang Liu , David Kung

Smartphones with the platforms of applications are gaining extensive attention and popularity. The enormous use of different applications has paved the way to numerous security threats. The threats are in the form of attacks such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Misbah Shafi , Rakesh Kumar Jha , Sanjeev Jain

The software industry aims to provide customers with quality software. Testing software is a critical and sensitive stage in ensuring software quality. Due to the increasing popularity of mobile devices, the use of Android applications has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Fatemeh Mosayeb , Shohreh Ajoudanian

Mobile apps provide various critical services, such as banking, communication, and healthcare. To this end, they have access to our personal information and have the ability to perform actions on our behalf. Hence, securing mobile apps is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Joydeep Mitra , Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath , Torben Amtoft , Mike Higgins

Since its conception, smart app market has grown exponentially. Success in the app market depends on many factors among which the quality of the app is a significant contributor, such as energy use. Nevertheless, smartphones, as a subset of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Ramin Rahnamoun , Reza Rawassizadeh , Arash Maskooki

As the dominant mobile operating system, Android continues to attract a substantial influx of new applications each year. However, this growth is accompanied by increased attention from malicious actors, resulting in a significant rise in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dewen Suo , Lei Xue , Weihao Huang , Runze Tan , Guozi Sun

Although App updates are frequent and software engineers would like to verify updated features only, automated testing techniques verify entire Apps and are thus wasting resources. We present Continuous Adaptation of Learned Models (CALM),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Chanh-Duc Ngo , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

The pervasiveness of mobile apps in everyday life necessitates robust testing strategies to ensure quality and efficiency, especially through end-to-end usage-based tests for mobile apps' user interfaces (UIs). However, manually creating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Benyamin Beyzaei , Saghar Talebipour , Ghazal Rafiei , Nenad Medvidovic , Sam Malek

Generating test cases through automatic app exploration is very useful for analyzing and testing Android apps. However, test cases generated by current app-exploration tools are not reproducible, i.e. when the generated test case is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Ziniu Hu , Yun Ma , Yangyang Huang

Popularity and complexity of malicious mobile applications are rising, making their analysis difficult and labor intensive. Mobile application analysis is indeed inherently different from desktop application analysis: In the latter, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Andrea Gianazza , Federico Maggi , Aristide Fattori , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Stefano Zanero

Static analysis is sound in theory, but an implementation may unsoundly fail to analyze all of a program's code. Any such omission is a serious threat to the validity of the tool's output. Our work is the first to measure the prevalence of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Jordan Samhi , René Just , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Michael D. Ernst , Jacques Klein

Smart TV application (app) is a new technological software app that can deal with smart TV devices to add more functionality and features. Despite its importance nowadays, far too little attention has been paid to present a systematic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Bestoun S. Ahmed , Angelo Gargantini , Miroslav Bures

Automated model-based test generation presents a viable alternative to the costly manual test creation currently employed for regression testing of web apps. However, existing model inference techniques rely on threshold-based whole-page…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Rahulkrishna Yandrapally , Ali Mesbah

The Android operating system has become the most popular operating system for smartphones and tablets leading to a rapid rise in malware. Sophisticated Android malware employ detection avoidance techniques in order to hide their malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Mohammed K. Alzaylaee , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer

System modeling is a classical approach to ensure their reliability since it is suitable both for a formal verification and for software testing techniques. In the context of model-based testing an approach combining random testing and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Julien Bernard , Pierre-Cyrille Héam , Olga Kouchnarenko

WebView is a UI widget that helps integrate web applications into the native context of Android apps. It provides powerful mechanisms for bi-directional interactions between the native-end (Java) and the web-end (JavaScript) of an Android…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jiajun Hu , Lili Wei , Yepang Liu , Shing-Chi Cheung

The performance model of an application can pro- vide understanding about its runtime behavior on particular hardware. Such information can be analyzed by developers for performance tuning. However, model building and analyzing is…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Kewen Meng , Boyana Norris