Caiipa: Automated large-scale mobile app testing through contextual fuzzing

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 519-530

  Liang, Chieh Jan Mike ^a   Lane, Nicholas D ^a   Brouwers, Niels ^b   Zhang, Li ^c   Karlsson, Börje F ^a   Liu, Hao ^d   Liu, Yan ^e   Tang, Jun ^f   Shan, Xiang ^f   Chandra, Ranveer ^a   Zhao, Feng ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Contextual fuzzing; Mobile app testing

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE TESTING; CONTEXTUAL FUZZING; DEVICE HETEROGENEITIES; LARGE-SCALES; MOBILE APP; MOBILE APP TESTING; NETWORK SPEED; SENSOR INPUTS; SPEED LOCATIONS; TEST INPUTS;

EID: 84907818374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2639108.2639131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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