Automated testing of android apps: A systematic literature review

P Kong, L Li, J Gao, K Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated testing of Android apps is essential for app users, app developers, and market
maintainer communities alike. Given the widespread adoption of Android and the …

A systematic mapping study of mobile application testing techniques

S Zein, N Salleh, J Grundy - Journal of Systems and Software, 2016 - Elsevier
The importance of mobile application specific testing techniques and methods has been
attracting much attention of software engineers over the past few years. This is due to the …

Ferret-ui: Grounded mobile ui understanding with multimodal llms

K You, H Zhang, E Schoop, F Weers… - … on Computer Vision, 2025 - Springer
Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been
noteworthy, yet, these general-domain MLLMs often fall short in their ability to comprehend …

“Won't somebody think of the children?” examining COPPA compliance at scale

I Reyes, P Wijesekera, J Reardon… - The 18th Privacy …, 2018 - dspace.networks.imdea.org
We present a scalable dynamic analysis frame-work that allows for the automatic evaluation
of the privacy behaviors of Android apps. We use our system to analyze mobile apps' …

Evodroid: Segmented evolutionary testing of android apps

R Mahmood, N Mirzaei, S Malek - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Proliferation of Android devices and apps has created a demand for applicable automated
software testing techniques. Prior research has primarily focused on either unit or GUI …

What are mobile developers asking about? a large scale study using stack overflow

C Rosen, E Shihab - Empirical Software Engineering, 2016 - Springer
The popularity of mobile devices has been steadily growing in recent years. These devices
heavily depend on software from the underlying operating systems to the applications they …

Using GUI ripping for automated testing of Android applications

D Amalfitano, AR Fasolino, P Tramontana… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
We present AndroidRipper, an automated technique that tests Android apps via their
Graphical User Interface (GUI). AndroidRipper is based on a user-interface driven ripper that …

Reran: Timing-and touch-sensitive record and replay for android

L Gomez, I Neamtiu, T Azim… - 2013 35th international …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Touchscreen-based devices such as smartphones and tablets are gaining popularity, but
their rich input capabilities pose new development and testing complications. To alleviate …

Software testing: a research travelogue (2000–2014)

A Orso, G Rothermel - Future of Software Engineering Proceedings, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Despite decades of work by researchers and practitioners on numerous software quality
assurance techniques, testing remains one of the most widely practiced and studied …

GUITAR: an innovative tool for automated testing of GUI-driven software

BN Nguyen, B Robbins, I Banerjee… - Automated software …, 2014 - Springer
Most of today's software applications feature a graphical user interface (GUI) front-end.
System testing of these applications requires that test cases, modeled as sequences of GUI …