Testing the Symbian OS Platform Security Architecture

The security of mobile operating systems becomes more and more important with the increasing number and increasing use of mobile devices. With the advances in operating systems security new concepts are introduced for increasing the security of current mobile operating systems. This paper introduces a testing system for the platform security architecture (PSA) of the mobile operating system Symbian OS. The overall design of our testing system strives for avoiding redundancy in the testcase specification as a central goal. We present design and implementation of selected testing areas and some issues that we found with the PSA implementation on current mobile devices.