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Mutation Testing to Evaluate Android Applications
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Author(s): Ahmad A. Saifan (Computer Information Systems Department, Faculty of IT, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan)and Ahmad Adnan Alzyoud (Information Systems Department, Faculty of IT, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan)
Copyright: 2020
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Pages: 18
Source title:
International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Marta Catillo (Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/IJOSSP.2020010102
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Abstract
Android is an operating system source which offers flexibility and support for most mobile applications, and easy access to social networks. It is important to understand the complexity of design, development, implementation, and testing of Android apps. A number of challenges may be faced in testing android applications, including the lack of testing processes and methods, testing experts being unavailable, poor in-house testing environment, and time restrictions. Mutation testing is a fault-based testing technique, applied by generating mutants and running the application with these mutants to analyze the killed and equivalent mutants. We defined a set of mutation operators according to the features of android applications: apps with content sharing, apps with multimedia, apps with graphics, and apps with user location and maps. We identified 42 mutation operators. In addition, we implemented a new tool, “µ-Android,” which automatically generates mutants and retrieves results to prove the efficiency of the test cases and enable the new operators.
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