CamDroid: Context-Aware Model-Based Automated GUI Testing for Android Apps

IF 6.6 1区计算机科学 Q1 Multidisciplinary

Tsinghua Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI:10.26599/TST.2024.9010038

Hongyi Wang;Yang Li;Jing Yang;Daqiang Hu;Zhi Liao

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Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the widespread adoption of mobile applications (apps for short). For quality-of-service and commercial competitiveness, sufficient Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing is required to verify the robustness of the apps. Given that testing with manual efforts is time-consuming and error-prone, automated GUI testing has been widely studied. However, existing approaches mostly focus on GUI exploration while lacking attention to complex interactions with apps, especially generating appropriate text inputs like real users. In this paper, we introduce CamDroid, a lightweight context-aware automated GUI testing tool, which can efficiently explore app activities through (1) a model-based UI-guided testing strategy informed by the context of previous event-activity transitions and (2) a data-driven text input generation approach regarding the GUI context. We evaluate CamDroid on 20 widely-used apps. The results show that CamDroid outperforms non-trivial baselines in activity coverage, crash detection, and test efficiency.

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CamDroid：基于上下文感知模型的 Android 应用程序图形用户界面自动测试

近年来，移动应用程序（简称应用程序）得到了广泛应用。为了保证服务质量和商业竞争力，需要进行充分的图形用户界面（GUI）测试，以验证应用程序的稳健性。鉴于人工测试耗时且容易出错，自动图形用户界面测试已被广泛研究。然而，现有的方法大多侧重于图形用户界面的探索，而缺乏对应用程序复杂交互的关注，尤其是像真实用户那样生成适当的文本输入。在本文中，我们介绍了一种轻量级上下文感知自动图形用户界面测试工具--CamDroid，它可以通过（1）基于模型的用户界面引导测试策略和（2）有关图形用户界面上下文的数据驱动文本输入生成方法，高效地探索应用程序的活动。我们在 20 个广泛使用的应用程序上对 CamDroid 进行了评估。结果表明，CamDroid 在活动覆盖率、崩溃检测和测试效率方面都优于其他基线。

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Tsinghua Science and Technology COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMSCOMPU-COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

CiteScore

10.20

自引率

10.60%

发文量

2340

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