US 2019/0196947 A1 · Application Analysis with Flexible Post-Processing

Abstract

The present disclosure describes methods and apparatuses for application analysis with flexible post-processing. One test suite can be used to analyze an application for multiple different types of potential issues. In example implementations, an application is provided to an application runner. The application runner executes the application and crawls through various user interface (UI) screens from a user interaction perspective in accordance with a test suite. Based on different UI screens, the application runner generates a set of artifacts that includes metadata pertinent to different types of potential issues with operation of the application. Multiple different post-processors are provided access to the set of artifacts, with each respective post-processor corresponding to a respective type of issue. A given post-processor processes the artifact set by traversing the metadata, extracting relevant portions thereof, and producing a report indicative of any potential problems for the type of issue corresponding to the given post-processor.

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Dependent claims

A method performed by at least one electronic device for application analysis with flexible post-processing, the method comprising:

loading an application to be analyzed;
obtaining a test suite including multiple test cases, each test case corresponding to at least one feature of the application;
crawling the application from a user interaction perspective, including:
activating user interaction elements based on the multiple test cases of the test suite to cause the application to produce multiple user interface (UI) screens;
and
determining multiple application states produced by the application, each respective application state corresponding to a respective UI screen of the multiple UI screens;
generating a set of artifacts based on the multiple application states;
and
processing the set of artifacts to investigate multiple types of issues pertaining to operation of the application.

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At least one electronic device for implementing application analysis with flexible post-processing, the electronic device comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more computer-readable storage media storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processors, the computer-readable storage media including:
an application configured to offer multiple features;
a test suite including multiple test cases, each test case corresponding to at least one feature of the multiple features;
an application runner configured to execute the application using the test suite, the application runner including:
an application crawler configured to traverse the application from a user interaction perspective and to provide metadata based on the test suite;
and
an artifact generator configured to generate a set of artifacts based on the metadata;
and
multiple post-processors configured to access the set of artifacts, each respective post-processor configured to use the set of artifacts to investigate a respective type of issue of multiple types of issues pertaining to operation of the application.

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At least one electronic device for implementing application analysis with flexible post-processing, the electronic device including one or more computer-readable storage media storing processor-executable instructions that, responsive to execution by one or more processors, cause the electronic device to perform operations comprising:

running an application to be analyzed;
emulating, based on a test suite, activation of user interaction elements to cause the application to produce multiple user interface (UI) screens;
determining multiple application states produced by the application, each respective application state corresponding to a respective UI screen of the multiple UI screens;
generating a set of artifacts based on the multiple application states, the set of artifacts including a UI screen of the multiple UI screens for each application state of the multiple application states;
processing the set of artifacts using a first post-processor to investigate a first type of issue pertaining to operation of the application;
and
producing, based on the processing, a first report corresponding to the first type of issue.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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