What are we missing when testing our Android apps?
A thorough study of the Android testing landscape with its hills and ditches
Hi there, this is Konstantin. Here you will find a collection of my research, opinions and observations
Recent Posts
Why passing data inside a mobile app is difficult?
The ‘web app’ metaphor helps to grasp Android app structure. Makes clear why passing data between activities is difficult.
InEx app is out
Today I’ve released InEx – a simple Android app for tracking breathing and meditative sessions with minimal distraction. If you’re into Wim Hof method or bre...
App4Tomorrow results
Proud of my students who delivered real apps to local businesses.
Lifecycle and Event-Based Testing for Android Applications
A comprehensive framework to automating testing of events in Android applications.
Challenges in mobile app testing
My presentation at ITMO University about challenges in Android app testing and some interesting research directions.
Automated Partitioning of Android Applications for Trusted Execution Environments
Adaptation and reuse of existing mobile applications to take advantage of the hardware backed protection
Hercules: Reproducing Crashes in Real-World Application Binaries
Solving the problems of vulnerability detection and reproducing crashes in real-world application binaries using symbolic execution and binary analysis
The last Word
We seemed to have been stuck with Word forever. Except for things do not stay in one place.
Run vertically
I’m no runner myself, however, once I received an essential lesson about running. My cousin Alex told me - “Don’t run vertically, run forward!” – “What do ...
Look for yourself
Taking care of yourself is difficult, especially in the present. If you feel good, you don’t want to do anything to yourself. If you feel bad – you don’t wan...
Fast text editing
I use Vim for text manipulation and I quite like it. Anything from Java source code to LaTeX text can be manipulated with the speed of thought.
Illustrated principles of good writing
Principles of clear and coherent writing, visualized
Automatically Generating Complex Test Cases from Simple Ones
My PhD thesis at the University of Lugano, Switzerland