Generating various contexts from permissions for testing Android applications

Kwangsik Song; Ah Rim Han; Sehun Jeong; Sungdeok Cha

doi:10.18293/SEKE2015-118

Generating various contexts from permissions for testing Android applications

Kwangsik Song, Ah Rim Han, Sehun Jeong, Sungdeok Cha

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Abstract

Context-awareness of mobile applications yields several issues for testing, since the mobile applications should be testable in any environment and with any contextual input. In previous studies of testing for Android applications as eventdriven systems, many researchers have focused on using the generated test cases considering only GUI events. However, it is difficult to detect failures in the changes in the context in which applications run. It is important to consider various contexts since the mobile applications adapt and use novel features and sensors of mobile devices. In this paper, we provide the method of systematically generating various executing contexts from permissions. By referring the lists of permissions, the resources that the applications use for running Android applications can be inferred easily. The various contexts of an application can be generated by permuting resource conditions, and the permutations of the contexts are prioritized. We have evaluated the usefulness and effectiveness of our method by showing that our method contributes to detect faults.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - SEKE 2015
Subtitle of host publication	27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
Publisher	Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School
Pages	87-92
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	1891706373
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18293/SEKE2015-118
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2015 - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 2015 Jul 6 → 2015 Jul 8

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE
Volume	2015-January
ISSN (Print)	2325-9000
ISSN (Electronic)	2325-9086

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Other	27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	15/7/6 → 15/7/8

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education(NRF-2014R1A1A2054098). This research was supported by the MSIP(Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-2015-H8501-15-1012) supervised by the IITP(Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion).

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2015 by KSI Research Inc. and Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School.

Keywords

Android application testing
Context-aware application
Mobile application testing
Permissions
Various contexts

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software

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Song, K., Han, A. R., Jeong, S., & Cha, S. (2015). Generating various contexts from permissions for testing Android applications. In Proceedings - SEKE 2015: 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (pp. 87-92). (Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE; Vol. 2015-January). Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School. https://doi.org/10.18293/SEKE2015-118

Generating various contexts from permissions for testing Android applications. / Song, Kwangsik; Han, Ah Rim; Jeong, Sehun et al.
Proceedings - SEKE 2015: 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School, 2015. p. 87-92 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE; Vol. 2015-January).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Song, K, Han, AR, Jeong, S & Cha, S 2015, Generating various contexts from permissions for testing Android applications. in Proceedings - SEKE 2015: 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE, vol. 2015-January, Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School, pp. 87-92, 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2015, Pittsburgh, United States, 15/7/6. https://doi.org/10.18293/SEKE2015-118

Song K, Han AR, Jeong S, Cha S. Generating various contexts from permissions for testing Android applications. In Proceedings - SEKE 2015: 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School. 2015. p. 87-92. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE). doi: 10.18293/SEKE2015-118

Song, Kwangsik ; Han, Ah Rim ; Jeong, Sehun et al. / Generating various contexts from permissions for testing Android applications. Proceedings - SEKE 2015: 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School, 2015. pp. 87-92 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE).

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