Title: Empirical study on the test effectiveness in open-source Android apps
Speaker: Tarek Salah Uddin Mahmud
Advisor: Dr. Anne Hee Hiong Ngu
When: Thursday, December 1 @ 3:00 p.m.
Where: https://txstate.zoom.us/j/7910806695
Abstract:
Android is the most widely used mobile operating system, with more than 70% of the market share. Many mobile app developers working on developing Android apps to facilitate the users. However, most of them are low-quality apps, due to less testing. Several research focuses on Android testing and they have proposed several techniques to make Android testing easier. In this study, we plan to investigate the current trends of android testing and test effectiveness in an open-source Android dataset. We plan to use the F-Droid dataset of 2965 apps in this study and empirically evaluate how many apps have tests and the distribution of the number of tests, the app code, and the Android API usage coverages of those tests. We found out of 2965 apps, only 680 of them have unit tests and only 219 of them have more than 100 tests. We are analyzing the code and API usage coverages of the 100 apps with the most tests.
Deadline: Dec. 28, 2022, midnight