• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.11
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• pp.1386-1396
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• 2015

Graphical user interface testing (GUI testing) techniques have been widely used to test the functionality of Android applications (apps) and to detect faults for verification of the reliability and usability of apps. To adequately test the behaviors of apps, a number of studies on model-based GUI testing techniques have been performed on Android apps. However, the effectiveness of model-based techniques greatly depends on the quality of the GUI model, because model-based GUI testing techniques generate test inputs based on this model. Therefore, in order to improve testing effectiveness in model-based techniques, accurate and efficient GUI model generation has to be achieved using an improved model generation technique with concrete definition of GUI states. For accurate and efficient generation of a GUI model and test inputs, this study suggests a hierarchical GUI state comparison technique and evaluates this technique through comparison with the existing model-based techniques, considering activities as GUI states. Our results show that the proposed technique outperforms existing approaches and has the potential to improve the performance of model-based GUI testing techniques for Android apps.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.319-327
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• 2013

Most Android applications are being developed by one or a few person without professional testing team. In such a poor development environment, applications may contain severe errors which may also affect the Android platform. In order to detect these errors, the behaviors of Android activities should be identified by considering user-defined lifecycle as well as the system-defined one. This paper proposes a method to generate test scenarios based on the both of user-defined and system-defined activity lifecycle of Android GUI applications. The test scenarios are generated by a state diagram extracted from the source code and are transformed into Jython scribes by using GUI layout information for automatically performing testing.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.19D no.2
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• pp.203-210
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• 2012

Capture-and-replay technique is a common automatic method for GUI testing. Testing applications on Android platform cannot use directly capture-and-replay technique due to the testing framework which is already set up and technical supported by Google and lack of automatic linking GUI elements to actions handling widget events. Without capture-and-replay testing tools testers must design and implement testing scenarios according to the specification, and make linking every GUI elements to event handling parts all by hand. This paper proposes a more improved and optimized approach than common capture-and-replay technique for automatic testing Android GUI widgets. XML is applied to extract GUI elements from applications based on tracing the actions to handle widget events. After tracing click events using monitoring in capture phase test cases will be created by communicating status of activated widget in replay phase with API events.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.10
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• pp.679-690
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• 2013

Smartphones have features that users feel free to install/delete the program they want. Their emergence makes many developers rush into the Smartphone application development market. Thus, developing good applications quickly is becoming even more intense competition in the market. Because, however, the application development and deployment procedures are simple in the Android environments and anyone can participate in the development easily, applications not validated thoroughly are likely to be deployed. Therefore, a systematic approach that can verify Android-based applications with fewer burdens is required. In this paper, we propose a method that generates automatically GUI-based testing scenarios for the Android applications. The automated test scenario generation can reduce the time which the developer spends on testing, thus it can improve the productivity of the development in the testing phase.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.41 no.12
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• pp.1013-1017
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• 2014

A variety of applications that are accessible through app markets provide useful features and functions. However, those applications can present many GUI bugs due to the deficiency of testing processes. Even though various approaches have been developed for mobile app testing, GUI bugs in applications are still difficult to be identified due to the absence of efficiency, lack of automation, and necessity of access to the source code. In this paper, we propose an automated black-box testing method for efficient GUI bug detection. Our experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better code coverage and uncovers GUI bugs when compared with existing black-box testing called Monkey.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.1231-1234
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• 2012

GUI는 안정성과 견고성 그리고 사용성을 검증하기 위하여 반드시 테스트가 되어야 한다. 하지만 이러한 GUI 테스팅은 기존 소프트웨어 테스트 과정보다 복잡하고 많은 양의 테스트 작업을 요구하게 된다. 그리하여 많은 자동화된 테스트 도구가 개발 되어왔으며, 많은 산업체에서는 이러한 자동화된 테스트 도구를 사용하여 소프트웨어의 품질을 측정하고 있다. 하지만 모바일 소프트웨어의 GUI를 테스트하기 위한 도구는 현재까지 개발 중이며 많은 연구가 선행 되고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 모바일 애플리케이션의 GUI를 테스트 하기 위하여 많이 사용되고 있는 오픈 소스 기반의 도구 3개를 선정하여 실제 애플리케이션에 적용하여 보고 분석을 통하여 향후 테스트 도구 개발에 대한 방향을 제시 하고자 한다.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.8
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• pp.1022-1030
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• 2015

The context-awareness of mobile applications yields several issues for testing, since mobile applications should be able to be tested in any environment and under any contextual input. In previous studies of testing for Android applications as an event-driven system, many researchers have focused on using generated test cases considering only Graphical User Interface (GUI) events. However, it is difficult to find failures that could be detected when considering the changes in the context in which applications run. It is even more important to consider various contexts since the mobile applications adapt and use the new features and sensors of mobile devices. In this paper, we provide a method of systematically generating various executing contexts from permissions. By referring to the lists of permissions, the resources used by the applications for running Android applications can be easily inferred. To evaluate the efficiency of our testing method, we applied the method on two open source projects and showed that it contributes to improve the statement code coverage.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.163-168
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose and develop a test automation program tool that automates GUI based testing using black box testing technique in Windows environment. The main features of the proposed test automation program tool are as follows. First, an error condition is designated as an image, a screen is captured for each test step, and an error message is detected through comparison of image similarity. Second, the proposed system supports various setting options such as event waiting time during execution and coordinate increment value between each test step. Such black box test automation research was common in environments such as Android and Web, but not in Windows environment. The results of performance evaluation show that the proposed system performs GUI test automation as an image comparison module and confirms that the test is performed normally by confirming process status and error image detection.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06b
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• pp.102-105
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• 2011

이 논문은 현재 사용되고 있는 안드로이드기반 GUI 자동화 테스트 기법보다 발전되고 최적화된 캡처 리플레이(Capture Replay) 방법을 제안하고 이의 효율성을 증명하기 위한 것이다. 먼저 캡처 리플레이 기법 적용된 안드로이드 자동화 테스트 방법을 살펴보고 캡춰 단계에 기록된 스크립트를 통해 리플레이 단계에 테스트 케이스를 자동으로 생성하고 테스트를 실행하는 방법을 제안하였다. 이를 위하여 XML을 이용하여 주요 위젯기반 원소를 추출하기 위한 기술들을 정립하고 위젯기반 API 이벤트 처리 방법을 고안하였다. 제안한 방법으로 캡처 단계에 모니터링하여 클릭 이벤트가 일어나는 형태를 추적한 후 리플레이 단계에서 활성화 된 위젯을 API 이벤트와 상태를 교환하여 테스트 케이스를 생성한다.