TextExerciser - Feedback-Driven Text Input Exercising for Android Applications

Explore a 16-minute IEEE conference talk on TextExerciser, an innovative iterative and feedback-driven text input exerciser for Android applications. Discover how this tool generates text inputs by utilizing app-provided hints for malformed inputs, significantly improving code coverage and sensitive behavior detection. Learn about the implementation and evaluation of TextExerciser, comparing its performance to state-of-the-art exercisers like The Monkey and DroidBot. Gain insights into how TextExerciser enhances dynamic analysis tools, enabling the detection of more privacy leaks and vulnerabilities, including a notable user credential leak in a popular social app with over 10 million downloads.

TextExerciser: Feedback-Driven Text Input Exercising for Android Applications