ReCDroid: Automatically Reproducing Android Application Crashes from Bug Reports

2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Pub Date : 2019-05-25 DOI:10.1109/ICSE.2019.00030

Yu Zhao, Tingting Yu, Ting Su, Yang Liu, Wei Zheng, Jingzhi Zhang, William G. J. Halfond

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Abstract

The large demand of mobile devices creates significant concerns about the quality of mobile applications (apps). Developers heavily rely on bug reports in issue tracking systems to reproduce failures (e.g., crashes). However, the process of crash reproduction is often manually done by developers, making the resolution of bugs inefficient, especially that bug reports are often written in natural language. To improve the productivity of developers in resolving bug reports, in this paper, we introduce a novel approach, called ReCDroid, that can automatically reproduce crashes from bug reports for Android apps. ReCDroid uses a combination of natural language processing (NLP) and dynamic GUI exploration to synthesize event sequences with the goal of reproducing the reported crash. We have evaluated ReCDroid on 51 original bug reports from 33 Android apps. The results show that ReCDroid successfully reproduced 33 crashes (63.5% success rate) directly from the textual description of bug reports. A user study involving 12 participants demonstrates that ReCDroid can improve the productivity of developers when resolving crash bug reports.

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ReCDroid:从Bug报告中自动复制Android应用程序崩溃

移动设备的巨大需求引起了人们对移动应用程序质量的极大关注。开发人员严重依赖问题跟踪系统中的错误报告来重现失败(例如，崩溃)。然而，崩溃重现的过程通常是由开发人员手动完成的，这使得bug的解决效率低下，特别是bug报告通常是用自然语言编写的。为了提高开发人员解决bug报告的效率，在本文中，我们引入了一种名为ReCDroid的新方法，它可以自动从Android应用程序的bug报告中重现崩溃。ReCDroid结合使用自然语言处理(NLP)和动态GUI探索来合成事件序列，目标是重现报告的崩溃。我们对来自33个Android应用的51个原始漏洞报告进行了ReCDroid评估。结果表明，ReCDroid直接从bug报告的文本描述中成功复制了33次崩溃(成功率为63.5%)。一项涉及12名参与者的用户研究表明，ReCDroid可以在解决崩溃错误报告时提高开发人员的工作效率。

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