Empirical Comparison of Intermediate Representations for Android Applications.

摘要: In Android-based mobile computing, since the original Java source code is irretrievable from Dalvik bytecode, intermediate representations (IRs) were developed to represent bytecode in readable form. To date, SMALI, JASMIN, and JIMPLE are all used as Android application IRs by developers, testers researchers. Here, we compare these three via randomized event-based testing (Monkey testing) determine that which most accurately preserves program behaviors terms of number successfully injected events. As such critical security, choice IR crucial during software security testing. our experiment, an comparative scheme, conducted a comprehensive empirical study. Statistical comparison IRs’ shows SMALI behaves closest applications hence suitable for accurate alternative (which usually not publicly available). Keywords-intermediate representation; behaviors; testing; computing; SMALI; JASMIN;