The iMPAcT tool for android testing

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2019

Authors

Inês Coimbra Morgado (Author) Other; Ana C. R. Paiva (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Vol. 3 No. EICS

Pages: 1-23

Publisher: ACM

Indexing

Scopus - 6 Citations

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00Q-RF9

Abstract (EN): This paper presents iMPAcT tool that tests recurring common behavior on Android mobile applications. The process followed combines exploration, reverse engineering and testing to automatically test Android mobile applications. The tool explores automatically the App by firing UI events. After each event fired, the tool checks if there are UI patterns present using a reverse engineering process. If a UI pattern is present, the tool runs the corresponding testing strategy (Test Pattern). During reverse engineering the tool uses a catalog of UI Patterns which describes recurring behavior (UI Patterns) to test and the corresponding test strategies (Test Patterns). This catalog may be extended in the future as needed (e.g., to deal with new interaction trends). This paper describes the implementation details of the iMPAcT tool, the catalog of patterns used, the outputs produced by the tool and the results of experiments performed in order to evaluate the overall testing approach. These results show that the overall testing approach is capable of finding failures on existing Android mobile applications. © 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 23