# Enhancing Android Application Bug Reporting

## TL;DR

This paper introduces Fusion, a system that improves Android bug reporting by auto-completing reproduction steps using static and dynamic analysis, resulting in more reproducible and actionable bug reports.

## Contribution

Fusion is a novel system that leverages GUI analysis to assist reporters in creating detailed, reproducible bug reports for mobile apps.

## Key findings

- Fusion significantly improves bug report reproducibility.
- The system reduces reporting time for testers.
- Enhanced bug reports lead to faster bug resolution.

## Abstract

The modern software development landscape has seen a shift in focus toward mobile applications as smartphones and tablets near ubiquitous adoption. Due to this trend, the complexity of these "apps" has been increasing, making development and maintenance challenging. Current bug tracking systems do not effectively facilitate the creation of bug reports with useful information that will directly lead to a bug's resolution. To address the need for an improved reporting system, we introduce a novel solution, called Fusion, that helps reporters auto-complete reproduction steps in bug reports for mobile apps by taking advantage of their GUI-centric nature. Fusion links information, that reporters provide, to program artifacts extracted through static and dynamic analysis performed beforehand. This allows our system to facilitate the reporting process for developers and testers, while generating more reproducible bug reports with immediately actionable information.