Goal-driven Exploration for Android Apps

GoalExplorer automatically generates an executable test script that directly triggers the functionality of interest. The core idea behind GoalExplorer is to first statically model the application UI screens and transitions between these screens, producing a Screen Transition Graph (STG). Then, GoalExplorer uses the STG to guide the dynamic exploration of the application to the particular target of interest: an Android activity, API call, or a program statement. The results of our empirical evaluation on 93 benchmark applications and 95 the most popular GooglePlay applications show that the STG is substantially more accurate than other Android UI models and that GoalExplorer is able to trigger a target functionality much faster than existing application exploration.

This repo contains the API calls, collected from Android Developers, that are used to identify fragments transaction, menu/drawer/dialog creation, and inter-component transitions. The repo also contains the details of our empirical evaluation on 93 benchmark applications and 95 the most popular GooglePlay applications, with app version, category, and size.

Publication

Goal-Driven Exploration for Android Applications

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