Reverse Engineering Mobile Apps for Model Generation Using a Hybrid Approach

Authors

  • Ibrahim Anka Salihu Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
  • Rosziati Ibrahim Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

Keywords:

GUI Model Generation, Mobile Apps, Model-based Testing, Reverse Engineering

Abstract

The popularity of mobile devices is ever increasing which led to rapid increase in the development of mobile applications. Model-Based testing can improve the quality of mobile application but the models are not always available or are of inadequate quality. Reverse engineering approaches are used to automatically generate model from the GUI of mobile applications for model-based testing. This paper proposes a hybrid approach for reverse engineering mobile applications which exploit the capabilities of both static and dynamic approaches while trying to maximize the quality of the generated models. The insight of this approach is to use static analysis on app’s source to identify supported events. The generated events can be used to dynamically explore an app at run-time to generate a state model of the app’s GUI. The preliminary results from our approach indicated that the technique can generate high quality models from android apps.

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Published

2016-07-01

How to Cite

Anka Salihu, I., & Ibrahim, R. (2016). Reverse Engineering Mobile Apps for Model Generation Using a Hybrid Approach. Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering (JTEC), 8(4), 1–5. Retrieved from https://jtec.utem.edu.my/jtec/article/view/1159

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