An Effective Android Code Coverage Tool

Autor: Stanislav Dashevskyi, Olga Gadyatskaya, Artsiom Kushniarou, Yury Zhauniarovich, Aleksandr Pilgun
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: CCS
DOI: 10.1145/3243734.3278484
Popis: The deluge of Android apps from third-party developers calls for sophisticated security testing and analysis techniques to inspect suspicious apps without accessing their source code. Code coverage is an important metric used in these techniques to evaluate their effectiveness, and even as a fitness function to help achieving better results in evolutionary and fuzzy approaches. Yet, so far there are no reliable tools for measuring fine-grained bytecode coverage of Android apps. In this work we present ACVTool that instruments Android apps and measures the smali code coverage at the level of classes, methods, and instructions. Tool repository: https://github.com/pilgun/acvtool
Databáze: OpenAIRE