A Test Scenario Generation Technique based on Task Information for Interaction Testing among Android Components

Tae-San Baek, Woo Jin Lee

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2017.44.6.595

Android applications are composed of one or more components. The components within an application or several applications may interact with each other primarily through intents. Such interactions may cause security and reliability issues such as broadcast theft, activity hijacking, and intent spoofing. These problems need to be resolved through testing techniques using various interaction test scenarios before an application gets launched. However, with the existing test scenario generation approach, some infeasible test scenarios may be generated since they do not consider the re-execution order based on activity setting when pressing the back button. This paper proposes a test case generation technique which removes infeasible interaction paths by utilizing the activity stack information.