TCM: test case mutation to improve crash detection in android

Yavuz Koroglu; Alper Sen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89363-1_15

TCM: test case mutation to improve crash detection in android

Yavuz Koroglu^*, Alper Sen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Bogazici University

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Abstract

GUI testing of mobile applications gradually became a very important topic in the last decade with the growing mobile application market. We propose Test Case Mutation (TCM) which mutates existing test cases to produce richer test cases. These mutated test cases detect crashes that are not previously detected by existing test cases. TCM differs from the well-known Mutation Testing (MT) where mutations are inserted in the source code of an Application Under Test (AUT) to measure the quality of test cases. Whereas in TCM, we modify existing test cases and obtain new ones to increase the number of detected crashes. Android applications take the largest portion of the mobile application market. Hence, we evaluate TCM on Android by replaying mutated test cases of randomly selected 100 AUTs from F-Droid benchmarks. We show that TCM is effective at detecting new crashes in a given time budget.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - 21st International Conference, FASE 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Proceedings
Editors	Andy Schurr, Alessandra Russo
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	264-280
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9783319893624
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89363-1_15
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	21st International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018 - Thessaloniki, Greece Duration: 16 Apr 2018 → 20 Apr 2018

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	10802 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	21st International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Thessaloniki
Period	16/04/18 → 20/04/18

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Koroglu, Y., & Sen, A. (2018). TCM: test case mutation to improve crash detection in android. In A. Schurr, & A. Russo (Eds.), Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - 21st International Conference, FASE 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Proceedings (pp. 264-280). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10802 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89363-1_15

Koroglu, Yavuz ; Sen, Alper. / TCM : test case mutation to improve crash detection in android. Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - 21st International Conference, FASE 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Proceedings. editor / Andy Schurr ; Alessandra Russo. Springer Verlag, 2018. pp. 264-280 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Koroglu, Y & Sen, A 2018, TCM: test case mutation to improve crash detection in android. in A Schurr & A Russo (eds), Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - 21st International Conference, FASE 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10802 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 264-280, 21st International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, 16/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89363-1_15

TCM: test case mutation to improve crash detection in android. / Koroglu, Yavuz; Sen, Alper.
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - 21st International Conference, FASE 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Proceedings. ed. / Andy Schurr; Alessandra Russo. Springer Verlag, 2018. p. 264-280 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10802 LNCS).

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Koroglu Y, Sen A. TCM: test case mutation to improve crash detection in android. In Schurr A, Russo A, editors, Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - 21st International Conference, FASE 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2018. p. 264-280. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-89363-1_15

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