An Experimental Study on Software Aging in Android Operating System

This paper presents an experimental study to explore Android operating system (OS) behaviour under different conditions. An Android application is developed and introduced in this paper for collecting the system memory information. In the experiments, stress tests with fixed level and with exponential level are conducted on the Android OS to explore the software aging phenomenon under different conditions. The experimental results indicate that software aging problem exists in Android OS under stress test with fixed level and with exponential level. This study is the first step to explore software aging phenomenon in the Android OS.