Smart Phone Tool Test Assertions and Test Plan public-comment-draft v1

1 August 15, 2009 2 Smart Phone Tool Test Assertions and Test Plan 3 4 5 6 7 Draft 1 for public comment of Version 1.0 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 33 ii 33 Abstract 34 As mobile devices proliferate, incorporating a host of integrated features and capabilities, their use 35 can be seen everywhere in our world today. Mobile communication devices contain a wealth of 36 information. In the investigative community their use is not restricted to data recovery alone as in 37 criminal cases, but also civil disputes and proceedings, and their aggregate use in research and 38 incident recreation continues to increase. Due to the exploding rate of growth in the 39 production of new mobile devices appearing on the market each year is reason alone to pay 40 attention to test measurement means and methods. The methods a tool uses to capture, process, and 41 report data must incorporate a broad range of capabilities to meet the demand as a robust data 42 acquisition tool. In general, a forensic examination conducted on a mobile device is only a small 43 subset of the larger field of digital forensics. Consequentially, tools possessing an exhaustive array 44 of capabilities to acquire data from these portable mobile devices are relatively few in number. 45 46 This paper defines assertions and test cases for mobile device applications capable of ...