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Activity-based Event Capture and Replay Technique for Reproducing Crashes in Android Applications

안드로이드 어플리케이션의 결함 재생을 위한 액티버티 단위의 이벤트 캡춰 및 재생 기법

  • Received : 2013.08.09
  • Accepted : 2013.10.13
  • Published : 2014.02.28
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Abstract

As Android platform and its applications are widely used, it is necessary to assure the reliability and safety of Android applications. The capture and replay technique is widely used for reproducing the crashes in Java applications. In this paper, we adapt the context-based capture and replay technique to Android applications by considering Android activity structure and its GUI characteristics. Our capture and replay technique uses probe code insertion based on AspectJ for minimizing the original code change and for enhancing the efficiency and reusability of the probe codes. For proving the efficiency of our technique, we provide a case study and execution overhead comparisons with related works, in which our approach has merits in GUI oriented Android applications with relatively low execution overhead.

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