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ICSE 2020
Wed 24 June - Thu 16 July 2020
Sat 11 Jul 2020 15:20 - 15:32 at Baekje - A25-Android Testing Chair(s): Ting Su

Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to obtain and capture a wealth of information pertinent to software developers (e.g., bugs or feature requests), making them a popular technique for crowdsourced app feedback. Thus, these videos are becoming a common artifact that developers must manage. In light of unique mobile development constraints, including swift release cycles and rapidly evolving platforms, automated techniques for analyzing all types of rich software artifacts provide benefit to mobile developers. Unfortunately, automatically analyzing screen recordings presents serious challenges, due to their graphical nature, compared to other types of (textual) artifacts. To address these challenges, this paper introduces V2S, a lightweight, automated approach for translating video recordings of Android app usages into replayable scenarios. V2S is based primarily on computer vision techniques and adapts recent solutions for object detection and image classification to detect and classify user actions captured in a video, and convert these into a replayable test scenario. We performed an extensive evaluation of V2S involving 175 videos depicting 3,534 GUI-based actions collected from users exercising features and reproducing bugs from over 80 popular Android apps. Our results illustrate that V2S can accurately replay scenarios from screen recordings, and reproduces $\approx$ 89% of our collected videos with minimal overhead. A case study with three industrial partners illustrates the potential usefulness of V2S for developers.

Sat 11 Jul

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15:00 - 16:00
A25-Android TestingTechnical Papers / Journal First at Baekje
Chair(s): Ting Su
15:00
8m
Talk
On the Energy Footprint of Mobile Testing FrameworksJ1
Journal First
Luís Cruz Deflt University of Technology, Rui Abreu Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa & INESC-ID
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
15:08
12m
Talk
ComboDroid: Generating High-Quality Test Inputs for Android Apps via Use Case CombinationsTechnicalArtifact Available
Technical Papers
Jue Wang Nanjing University, Yanyan Jiang Nanjing University, Chang Xu Nanjing University, Chun Cao Nanjing University, Xiaoxing Ma Nanjing University, Jian Lu Nanjing University
15:20
12m
Talk
Translating Video Recordings of Mobile App Usages into Replayable ScenariosACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper AwardsTechnical
Technical Papers
Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas William and Mary, Nathan Cooper College of William & Mary, Kevin Moran William & Mary/George Mason University, Oscar Chaparro College of William & Mary, Andrian Marcus University of Texas at Dallas, Denys Poshyvanyk William and Mary
Pre-print Media Attached
15:32
8m
Talk
An Empirical Study on Quality of AndroidApplications written in Kotlin languageJ1
Journal First
Bruno Gois Mateus Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Matias Martinez Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France
15:40
8m
Talk
Enhancing Trustability of Android Applications via User-Centric Flexible PermissionsJ1
Journal First
Gian Luca Scoccia University of L'Aquila, Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Marco Autili University of L'Aquila, Italy, Amleto Di Salle University of L'Aquila, Paola Inverardi University of L'Aquila
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
15:48
8m
Talk
A Longitudinal Study of Popular Ad Libraries in the Google Play StoreJ1
Journal First
Md Ahasanuzzaman Queen's University, Safwat Hassan Queens University, Kingston, Canada, Cor-Paul Bezemer University of Alberta, Canada, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University