Test Case Generation from Android Mobile Applications Focusing on Context Events

Abstract

Nowadays mobile apps are developed to address more critical areas of people’s daily computing needs, which bring concern on the applications’ quality. Today’s Mobile apps processed not only the traditional GUI events but also accept and react to constantly varying context events which may have an impact on the application’s behaviour. To build high quality and more reliable applications, there is a need for effective testing techniques to test apps before release. Most of recent testing technique focuses on GUI events only making it difficult to identify other defects in the changes that can be inclined by the context in which an application runs. This paper proposed an approach for testing mobile apps considering the two sets of events: GUI events which we identified through static analysis of bytecode and context events obtained from analysis of manifest.xml file. Results from the experimental evaluation indicated that our approach is effective in identifying and testing context events.