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 …

Collusive data leak and more: Large-scale threat analysis of inter-app communications

A Bosu, F Liu, D Yao, G Wang - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Asia …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Inter-Component Communication (ICC) provides a message passing mechanism for data
exchange between Android applications. It has been long believed that inter-app ICCs can …

Understanding the evolution of android app vulnerabilities

J Gao, L Li, P Kong, TF Bissyandé… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Android ecosystem today is a growing universe of a few billion devices, hundreds of
millions of users and millions of applications targeting a wide range of activities where …

Deep GUI: Black-box GUI input generation with deep learning

F YazdaniBanafsheDaragh… - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the proliferation of Android testing tools, Google Monkey has remained the de facto
standard for practitioners. The popularity of Google Monkey is largely due to the fact that it is …

Chain-of-thought prompting of large language models for discovering and fixing software vulnerabilities

Y Nong, M Aldeen, L Cheng, H Hu, F Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Security vulnerabilities are increasingly prevalent in modern software and they are widely
consequential to our society. Various approaches to defending against these vulnerabilities …

A longitudinal study of application structure and behaviors in android

H Cai, B Ryder - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rise of the mobile computing market, Android has received tremendous attention
from both academia and industry. Application programming in Android is known to have …

Mobile app privacy in software engineering research: A systematic mapping study

F Ebrahimi, M Tushev, A Mahmoud - Information and Software Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Context: Mobile applications (apps) have become deeply personal, constantly demanding
access to privacy-sensitive information in exchange for more personalized user …

An empirical study of sms one-time password authentication in android apps

S Ma, R Feng, J Li, Y Liu, S Nepal, Diethelm… - Proceedings of the 35th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
A great quantity of user passwords nowadays has been leaked through security breaches of
user accounts. To enhance the security of the Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) in …

Android inter-app communication threats and detection techniques

S Bhandari, WB Jaballah, V Jain, V Laxmi… - Computers & …, 2017 - Elsevier
With the digital breakthrough, smart phones have become very essential component for
many routine tasks like shopping, paying bills, transferring money, instant messaging …