A Systematic Mapping Study in Security Software Testing for Mobile Devices

Felipe Faustino, Jéssyka Vilela, Carla Silva, Mariana Peixoto

2024

Abstract

Context: Due to mobile devices’ popularity, they contain more valuable information. Problem: these devices face many security issues and challenges since smartphones are interesting for security attacks once they contain private and sensitive data. Objective: the aim of this paper is to investigate security testing techniques for mobile devices. Method: a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) was conducted to identify solutions focused on software security testing for mobile devices. Results: 1264 primary papers were identified, and 17 relevant papers were selected. We found mobile security testing tends to be mostly: dynamic; automated testing; penetration testing; dynamic analysis. Conclusions: dynamic testing represents 58.82% of security testing, followed by static testing, 29.41%, and studies that present both of them 11.76%. It’s important to highlight that automated and semi-automated testing represent 88.23% of the studies and only 11.76% used manual testing.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Faustino F., Vilela J., Silva C. and Peixoto M. (2024). A Systematic Mapping Study in Security Software Testing for Mobile Devices. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS; ISBN 978-989-758-699-6, SciTePress, pages 17-28. DOI: 10.5220/0012552100003705

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iotbds24,
author={Felipe Faustino and Jéssyka Vilela and Carla Silva and Mariana Peixoto},
title={A Systematic Mapping Study in Security Software Testing for Mobile Devices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS},
year={2024},
pages={17-28},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012552100003705},
isbn={978-989-758-699-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS
TI - A Systematic Mapping Study in Security Software Testing for Mobile Devices
SN - 978-989-758-699-6
AU - Faustino F.
AU - Vilela J.
AU - Silva C.
AU - Peixoto M.
PY - 2024
SP - 17
EP - 28
DO - 10.5220/0012552100003705
PB - SciTePress