A toolset for GUI testing of Android applications

Author

Amalfitano, Domenico ; Fasolino, Anna Rita ; Tramontana, Porfirio ; De Carmine, S. ; Imparato, G.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Inf. e Sist., Univ. di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

23-28 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

650

Lastpage

653

Abstract

This paper presents a toolset for GUI testing of Android applications. The toolset is centered on a GUI ripper that systematically explores the GUI structure of an application under test with the aim of firing sequences of user events and exposing failures of the application. The toolset supports the execution of a testing procedure that automatically performs crash testing of subject applications and provides test results made of several artifacts. The paper illustrates some examples of using the toolset for testing real Android applications.

Keywords

Linux; automatic test software; graphical user interfaces; program testing; Android applications; GUI ripping technique; GUI testing toolset; application failures; application-under-test; automatic crash testing; graphical user interfaces; user event firing sequences; Androids; Conferences; Graphical user interfaces; Humanoid robots; Java; Testing; Android application testing; GUI ripping; testing automation¹;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2012 28th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Trento

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2313-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405345

Filename

6405345