Versatile yet lightweight record-and-replay for android

Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA

Volumn 25-30-Oct-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages 349-366

  Hu, Yongjian ^a   Azim, Tanzirul ^a   Neamtiu, Iulian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

App testing; Event based races; Google Android; Mobile applications; Record and replay

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES;

ANDROID PLATFORMS; EVENT-BASED; GOOGLE ANDROID; HIGH THROUGHPUT; MACHINE INSTRUCTIONS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; RECORD-AND-REPLAY; SMARTPHONE APPS;

ANDROID (OPERATING SYSTEM);

EID: 84958681574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2814270.2814320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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