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Android is designed with a number of built-in security features such as app sandboxing and permission-based access controls. Android supports multiple communication methods for apps to cooperate. This creates a security risk of app…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Jorge Blasco , Thomas M. Chen , Igor Muttik , Markus Roggenbach

Smartphones and mobile devices are rapidly becoming indispensable devices for many users. Unfortunately, they also become fertile grounds for hackers to deploy malware and to spread virus. There is an urgent need to have a "security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Min Zheng , Mingshen Sun , John C. S. Lui

The functionality of many mobile applications is dependent on various contextual, external factors. Depending on unforeseen scenarios, mobile apps can even malfunction or crash. In this paper, we have introduced MobiCoMonkey - automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Amit Seal Ami , Md. Mehedi Hasan , Md. Rayhanur Rahman , Kazi Sakib

Automatic generators of GUI tests often fail to generate semantically relevant test cases, and thus miss important test scenarios. To address this issue, test adaptation techniques can be used to automatically generate semantically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Leonardo Mariani , Mauro Pezzè , Valerio Terragni , Daniele Zuddas

Due to Android's open source feature and low barriers to entry for developers, millions of developers and third-party organizations have been attracted into the Android ecosystem. However, over 90 percent of mobile malware are found…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Bin Zhao

In this paper, we present an Android application to control and monitor the physiological sensors from the Shimmer platform and its synchronized working with a driving simulator. The Android app can monitor drivers and their parameters can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David González-Ortega , Francisco Javier Díaz-Pernas , Mario Martínez-Zarzuela , Míriam Antón-Rodríguez

Mobile operating systems evolve quickly, frequently updating the APIs that app developers use to build their apps. Unfortunately, API updates do not always guarantee backward compatibility, causing apps to not longer work properly or even…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Marco Mobilio , Oliviero Riganelli , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

With the rapid advancement of deep learning and related technologies, Autonomous Driving Systems (ADSs) have made significant progress and are gradually being widely applied in safety-critical fields. However, numerous accident reports show…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Pin Ji , Yang Feng , Zongtai Li , Xiangchi Zhou , Jia Liu , Jun Sun , Zhihong Zhao

Keeping up with research and finding related work is still a time-consuming task for academics. Researchers sift through thousands of studies to identify a few relevant ones. Automation techniques can help by increasing the efficiency and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wojciech Kusa , Petr Knoth , Allan Hanbury

Android-based smart devices are exponentially growing, and due to the ubiquity of the Internet, these devices are globally connected to the different devices/networks. Its popularity, attractive features, and mobility make malware creator…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Sanjay K. Sahay , Ashu Sharma

Android applications collecting data from users must protect it according to the current legal frameworks. Such data protection has become even more important since the European Union rolled out the General Data Protection Regulation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mugdha Khedkar , Eric Bodden

While there have been various studies towards Android apps and their development, there is limited discussion of the broader class of apps that fall in the fake area. Fake apps and their development are distinct from official apps and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Chongbin Tang , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Lihua Xu , Yang Liu , Zhushou Tang , Liang Dou

Issue tracking systems serve as the primary tool for incorporating external users and customizing a software project to meet the users' requirements. However, the limited number of contributors and the challenge of identifying the best…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Joy Krishan Das , Saikat Mondal , Chanchal K. Roy

Because Mobile apps are extremely popular and often mission critical nowadays, companies invest a great deal of resources in testing the apps they provide to their customers. Testing is particularly important for Android apps, which must…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Mattia Fazzini , Eduardo Noronha de A. Freitas , Shauvik Roy Choudhary , Alessandro Orso

Analyzing Android applications for malicious behavior is an important area of research, and is made difficult, in part, by the increasingly large number of applications available for the platform. While techniques exist to perform static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Michael Bierma , Eric Gustafson , Jeremy Erickson , David Fritz , Yung Ryn Choe

XML configuration files are widely used in Android to define an app's user interface and essential runtime information such as system permissions. As Android evolves, it might introduce functional changes in the configuration environment,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Huaxun Huang , Ming Wen , Lili Wei , Yepang Liu , Shing-Chi Cheung

Crash consistency is essential for applications that must persist data. Crash-consistency testing has been commonly applied to find crash-consistency bugs in applications. The crash-state space grows exponentially as the number of…

Road crashes are the sixth leading cause of lost disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) worldwide. One major challenge in traffic safety research is the sparsity of crashes, which makes it difficult to achieve a fine-grain understanding of…

This report details the design, development, and implementation of IncidentUI, an Android tablet application designed to measure user-experienced ride comfort and record disengagement data for autonomous vehicles (AV) during test drives.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Manas Mehta , Nugzar Chkhaidze , Yizhen Wang

Crash reports are central to software maintenance, yet many lack the diagnostic detail developers need to debug efficiently. We examine whether large language models can enhance crash reports by adding fault locations, root-cause…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 S M Farah Al Fahim , Md Nakhla Rafi , Zeyang Ma , Dong Jae Kim , Tse-Hsun , Chen