Computer Science ›› 2017, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (11): 27-32.doi: 10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2017.11.005

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Concurrency Bugs Verification in Android Applications Based on Test Case Generation

SHE Yi, TANG Hong-yin, WU Guo-quan, CHEN Wei, WEI Jun and HUANG Tao   

  • Online:2018-12-01 Published:2018-12-01

Abstract: Android application is an event-based concurrent program.Data race is common in Android apps due to unforeseen threads interleaving coupled with non-deterministic reordering of asynchronous events.Existing race detection tools for Android applications will report false positive,and cannot replay the concurrent bugs caused by race.To address this issue,this paper proposed a new technique to expose race based on the results obtained from existing race detection tools.Our technique firstly builds state transition graph (STG) for targeted application,and generates a test case that has potential data races based on the STG and the results reported by existing race detection tools.Then it resche-dules test cases execution by controlling event dispatching and thread interleaving to determine whether such potential races really lead to thrown exceptions.Our experiments show that this technique is effective,and it can confirm and replay concurrency bug caused by real data races,while at the same time eliminates false warnings for Android apps.

Key words: Record/Replay,Data race,Mobile application,Android,Testing

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