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Mobile applications have become an essential part of our daily lives, making ensuring their quality an important activity. Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing is a quality assurance method that has frequently been used for mobile apps.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chenhui Cui , Tao Li , Junjie Wang , Chunyang Chen , Dave Towey , Rubing Huang

The importance of mobile application (app) quality insurance is increasing with the rapid development of the mobile Internet. Automated test generation approaches, as a dominant direction of app quality insurance, follow specific models or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Mingzhe Du , Zimin Ding , Zhenyu Chen , Zhendong Su

There have been many studies on automated test generation for mobile Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications. These studies successfully demonstrate how to detect fatal exceptions and achieve high code and activity coverage with fully…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Yavuz Koroglu , Alper Sen

Discovering vulnerabilities in applications of real-world complexity is a daunting task: a vulnerability may affect a single line of code, and yet it compromises the security of the entire application. Even worse, vulnerabilities may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Gabriele Costa , Andrea Valenza

Functional testing is essential for verifying that the business logic of mobile applications aligns with user requirements, serving as the primary methodology for quality assurance in software development. Despite its importance, functional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yakun Zhang , Zihan Wang , Xinzhi Peng , Zihao Xie , Xiaodong Wang , Xutao Li , Dan Hao , Lu Zhang , Yunming Ye

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

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

Mobile acceptance testing remains a bottleneck in modern software development, particularly for cross-platform mobile development using frameworks like Flutter. While developers increasingly rely on automated testing tools, creating and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Pedro Luís Fonseca , Bruno Lima , João Pascoal Faria

The Android OS has become the most popular mobile operating system leading to a significant increase in the spread of Android malware. Consequently, several static and dynamic analysis systems have been developed to detect Android malware.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Mohammed K. Alzaylaee , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer

The fragmentation problem has extended from Android to different platforms, such as iOS, mobile web, and even mini-programs within some applications (app). In such a situation, recording and replaying test scripts is a popular automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Yexiao Yun , Yang Feng

Context. Multiple automated techniques have been proposed and developed for mobile application GUI testing aiming to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality. The effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality are 3 fundamental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Yauhen Leanidavich Arnatovich , Lipo Wang

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) is how users interact with mobile apps. To ensure it functions properly, testing engineers have to make sure it functions as intended, based on test requirements that are typically written in natural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yongxiang Hu , Xuan Wang , Yingchuan Wang , Yu Zhang , Shiyu Guo , Chaoyi Chen , Xin Wang , Yangfan Zhou

Android Apps are frequently updated to keep up with changing user, hardware, and business demands. Ensuring the correctness of App updates through extensive testing is crucial to avoid potential bugs reaching the end user. Existing Android…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chao Peng , Zhengwei Lv , Jiarong Fu , Jiayuan Liang , Zhao Zhang , Ajitha Rajan , Ping Yang

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

As mobile application (app) functionalities grow increasingly complex and their iterations accelerate, ensuring high reliability presents significant challenges. While functionality-oriented GUI testing has attracted growing research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jinlong He , Changwei Xia , Binru Huang , Jiwei Yan , Jun Yan , Jian Zhang

Exploratory GUI testing is a particularly demanding setting for MLLM agents: without predefined test scripts, an agent must autonomously navigate an application and discover defects through its own interaction. However, current evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaoyi Chen , Yifei Gao , Yang Xu , Xingxing Song , Yi Zhang , Jitao Sang

XML configuration files are widely used in Android to define an app's user interface and essential runtime information such as system permissions. As Android evolves, it might introduce functional changes in the configuration environment,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Huaxun Huang , Ming Wen , Lili Wei , Yepang Liu , Shing-Chi Cheung

This paper introduces an automated heuristic process able to achieve high accuracy when matching graphical user interface widgets across multiple versions of a target application. The proposed implementation is flexible as it allows full…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Arthur-Jozsef Molnar

The process of developing a mobile application typically starts with the ideation and conceptualization of its user interface. This concept is then translated into a set of mock-ups to help determine how well the user interface embodies the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Kevin Moran , Michele Tufano , Zichang Liu , Linyong Nan , Zhehan Shi , Denys Poshyvanyk

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