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A Real-World, Hybrid Event Sequence Generation Framework For Android Apps, Jun Sun
A Real-World, Hybrid Event Sequence Generation Framework For Android Apps, Jun Sun
Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Generating meaningful inputs for Android apps is still a challenging issue that needs more research. Past research efforts have shown that random test generation is still an effective means to exercise User-Interface (UI) events to achieve high code coverage. At the same time, heuristic search approaches can effectively reach specified code targets. Our investigation shows that these approaches alone are insufficient to generate inputs that can exercise specific code locations in complex Android applications.
This thesis introduces a hybrid approach that combines two different input generation techniques--heuristic search based on genetic algorithm and random instigation of UI events, to reach …