Mobile Testing and Analysis
Seminar - Summer Semester 2013

This seminar will explore the existing testing and analysis techniques for mobile applications (e.g. Android apps). The seminar will also cover static and dynamic analysis techniques for security in mobile systems.

We will have weekly meetings. Each week we will discuss one research paper.

Meetings will be on Thursdays from 09.15 till 10.00 in room E1 1 1.06

List of papers

• Retargeting Android Applications to Java Bytecode
• ProfileDroid: Multi-layer Profiling of Android Applications
• TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones
• Highly Precise Taint Analysis for Android Applications
• Android Permissions Demystified
• Aurasium: Practical Policy Enforcement for Android Applications
• Dissecting Android Malware: Characterization and Evolution
• Automating GUI Testing for Android Applications
• A Grey-box Approach for Automated GUI-Model Generation of Mobile Applications
• Dynodroid: An Input Generation System for Android Apps
• Using GUI ripping for automated testing of Android applications
• GROPG: A Graphical On-Phone Debugger
• Testing for Poor Responsiveness in Android Applications

Registration

We have reached the maximum number of participants for the seminar, and we do not accept any other. The registration is closed.

To register send an email to E-mail and provide the following information:

• Indicate whether you are a bachelor or a master student, and which semester you are attending.
• Indicate whether you attended any course or seminar offered by our chair.
• Provide a brief motivation for attending this seminar.

Passing Requirement

What should you do in order to gain credit points for this course?

• Submit all Summary on time
• Attend the weekly meetings. Up to 2 unexcused absences accepted. Please inform us if you have a valid reason to miss the discussion
• Present one of the papers at the end of semester for 20-25 minutes
• Submit annotated slides of your talk post presentation

Grading Scheme

• Summary: 40%
• Presentation: 40%
• Annotated slides: 20%

Summaries

Each summary should be sent to the mailing list address mobileta13 AT lists.st.cs.uni-saarland.de by Wednesday 3pm.

You can find a sample summary here, together with some suggestions on how to write a summary.

Feedback

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• 0 Good summary. Fulfills all the requirements
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Contacts

• Dr. Alessandra Gorla
• Krishna Narasimhan
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller

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