ROMDHANA A.

The Google Play Store currently includes up to 2.8M apps. Nonetheless, it is rather straightforward for a user to quickly retrieve the app that matches her tastes, as Google provides a reliable search engine. However, it is likewise almost impossible to select apps according to a security footprint (e.g., all apps that enforce SSL pinning). To...

The state space of Android apps is huge, and its thorough exploration during testing remains a significant challenge. The best exploration strategy is highly dependent on the features of the app under test. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a machine learning technique that learns the optimal strategy to solve a task by trial and error, guided by...

The access to privacy-sensitive information on Android is a growing concern in the mobile community. Albeit Google Play recently introduced some privacy guidelines, it is still an open problem to soundly verify whether apps actually comply with such rules. To this aim, in this paper, we discuss a novel methodology based on a fruitful...

The degree of code coverage reached by a test suite is an important indicator of the thoroughness of testing. Most coverage tools for Android apps work at the bytecode level and provide no information to developers about which source code lines have not yet been exercised by any test case. In this paper, we present COSMO, the first fully...