MobiCoMonkey - Context Testing of Android Apps
This addresses the need for developers to test Android apps under various contextual conditions to prevent crashes, though it is incremental as it builds on existing Android SDK tools.
The paper tackles the problem of mobile app malfunctions due to contextual factors by introducing MobiCoMonkey, an automated tool that tests apps against contextual scenarios and detects bugs, reporting connections to contextual factors for reproduction.
The functionality of many mobile applications is dependent on various contextual, external factors. Depending on unforeseen scenarios, mobile apps can even malfunction or crash. In this paper, we have introduced MobiCoMonkey - automated tool that allows a developer to test app against custom or auto generated contextual scenarios and help detect possible bugs through the emulator. Moreover, it reports the connection between the bugs and contextual factors so that the bugs can later be reproduced. It utilizes the tools offered by Android SDK and logcat to inject events and capture traces of the app execution.