For ensuring the reliability of Android apps, there has been tremendous, continuous
progress on improving automated GUI testing in the past decade. Specifically, dozens of …

Android apps are ubiquitous and serve many aspects of our daily lives. Ensuring their
functional correctness is crucial for their success. To date, we still lack a general and in …

Android apps are GUI-based event-driven software and have become ubiquitous in recent
years. Obviously, functional correctness is critical for an app's success. However, in addition …

Modern applications have become increasingly complex and their manual installation and
configuration is no longer practical. Instead, IT organizations heavily rely on Infrastructure as …

Non-crashing functional bugs of Android apps can seriously affect user experience. Often
buried in rare program paths, such bugs are difficult to detect but lead to severe …

Android apps are event-driven, and their execution is often interrupted by external events.
This interruption can cause data loss issues that annoy users. For instance, when the screen …

Modern applications have been emerging towards a cloud-based programming model
where applications depend on cloud services for various functionalities. Such “cloud native” …

Android, the most popular mobile system, offers a number of user-configurable system
settings (eg, network, location, and permission) for controlling devices and apps. Even …

Software systems introduce an increasing number of configuration options to provide
flexibility, and support updating the options on the fly to provide persistent services. This …

Numerous approaches employing various strategies have been developed to test the
graphical user interfaces (GUIs) of mobile apps. However, traditional GUI testing techniques …