Targeted and depth-first exploration for systematic testing of Android apps

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 641-660

  Azim, Tanzirul ^a   Neamtiu, Iulian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Code coverage; Dynamic analysis; Google Android; Greybox testing; GUI testing; Systematic exploration; Taint analysis; Test case generation

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; FLOW GRAPHS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; TELEPHONE SETS;

CODE COVERAGE; GOOGLE ANDROID; GREY-BOX TESTING; GUI TESTING; SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION; TAINT ANALYSIS; TEST CASE GENERATION;

ANDROID (OPERATING SYSTEM);

EID: 84888803377     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2544173.2509549     Document Type: Article

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