CAPTURE AND REPLAY TECHNIQUE FOR REPRODUCING CRASH IN ANDROID APPLICATIONS

摘要

Software testing takes significant amount of time andrncost. Many in-house software testing techniques arernavailable but all the techniques can’t be used due to timernand budget constraints so limited testing efforts arernapplied most of the time. Due to this limited testing effortrnthere is always chance of failing the software in the field.rnTo make this worse, developers don’t have any clue whyrndeployed software failed or crashed. When the softwarerncrashes, stack trace is usually sent back to developerrnwhich in most of the cases does not provide enoughrninformation to pinpoint the cause of crash. We present arncapture and replay technique which addresses thisrnproblem by recording the sequence of events in the fieldrnbefore crash and reproducing the sequence of events inhousernafter crash. Our approach is content-based whichrnrecords events and data associated with those eventsrnduring program execution. Our technique mainly focusesrnon the Android applications but similar approach can alsornbe used for other object oriented applications.