Most of the automated approaches to support software engineering tasks for mobile applications, use source code as entry, which due to privacy factors imposes hard constraints on the implementation of those approaches by third-party services. However, the continuous pressure from market is leading practitioners to crowdsource/outsource software engineering tasks to third-parties that provide on-the-cloud infrastructures. Therefore, approaches that work at closed-source level (i.e., do not require source code) are desirable to enable automated outsourced software engineering tasks by third-party services. Specifically, in this paper we focus on testing since is a task that has broadly accepted approaches at source-code level, but new efforts are required to enable source-codeless approaches. We analyzed the current challenges and shortfalls of the currently proposed approaches that works at source code and APK level, and present our research plan oriented to reduce the existing gap for enabling testing techniques at APK level.
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15:30 - 17:00 | Doctoral Symposium 3Doctoral Symposium at São João Chair(s): Ana Paiva Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory | ||
15:30 30mTalk | Panel 3: Why and How to Get a Ph.D.? Doctoral Symposium Lionel Briand University of Luxembourg, University of Ottawa | ||
16:00 30mTalk | Toward Automated Assessment of User Experience in Extended Reality Doctoral Symposium Saba Gholizadeh Ansari Utrecht University Link to publication DOI | ||
16:30 30mTalk | Source-Codeless Testing for Android Apps Doctoral Symposium Camilo Escobar-Velásquez Universidad de los Andes Link to publication DOI |