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App store mining has proven to be a promising technique for requirements elicitation as companies can gain valuable knowledge to maintain and evolve existing apps. However, despite first advancements in using mining techniques for…

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Graphical User Interface (GUI) action grounding is a critical step in GUI automation that maps language instructions to actionable elements on GUI screens. Most recent works of GUI action grounding leverage large GUI datasets to fine-tune…

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Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled the development of mobile agents that can understand visual inputs and follow user instructions, unlocking new possibilities for automating complex tasks on mobile…

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The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened up new opportunities in the area of cybersecurity, especially in the exploitation automation landscape and penetration testing. This study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Wanni Vidulige Ishan Perera , Xing Liu , Fan liang , Junyi Zhang

GUI task automation streamlines repetitive tasks, but existing LLM or VLM-based planner-executor agents suffer from brittle generalization, high latency, and limited long-horizon coherence. Their reliance on single-shot reasoning or static…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Seoyoung Lee , Seonbin Yoon , Seongbeen Lee , Hyesoo Kim , Joo Yong Sim

The Android platform was introduced by Google in 2008 as an operating system for mobile devices. Android's SDK provides a wide support for programming and extensive examples and documentation. Reliability is an increasing concern for Smart…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Néstor Cataño

Process mining is a research field focused on the analysis of event data with the aim of extracting insights in processes. Applying process mining techniques on data from smart home environments has the potential to provide valuable…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-13 Niek Tax , Emin Alasgarov , Natalia Sidorova , Reinder Haakma

Like many desktop operating systems in the 1990s, Android is now in the process of including support for multi-user scenarios. Because these scenarios introduce new threats to the system, we should have an understanding of how well the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Paul Ratazzi , Yousra Aafer , Amit Ahlawat , Hao Hao , Yifei Wang , Wenliang Du

Automatic test generation can help verify and develop the behavior of mobile applications. Test reuse based on semantic similarities between applications of the same category has been utilized to reduce the manual effort of Graphical User…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Shuqi Liu , Yu Zhou , Tingting Han , Taolue Chen

Testing is the most direct and effective technique to ensure software quality. Test scripts always play a more important role in mobile app testing than test cases for source code, due to the GUI-intensive and event-driven characteristics…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Jia Liu , Zhenyu Chen

Building Android applications reliably remains a persistent challenge due to complex dependencies, diverse configurations, and the rapid evolution of the Android ecosystem. This study conducts an empirical analysis of 200 open-source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lakshmi Priya Bodepudi , Yutong Zhao , Ming Quan Fu , Yuanyuan Wu , Sen He , Yu Zhao

Post-Training Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to build interactive agents holds promise across domains such as computer-use, web navigation, and robotics. A key challenge in scaling such post-training is lack of high-quality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ram Ramrakhya , Andrew Szot , Omar Attia , Yuhao Yang , Anh Nguyen , Bogdan Mazoure , Zhe Gan , Harsh Agrawal , Alexander Toshev

To adequately test modern code generation systems, evaluation benchmarks must execute and test the code generated by the system. However, these execution and testing requirements have largely limited benchmarks to settings where code is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yiqing Xie , Alex Xie , Divyanshu Sheth , Pengfei Liu , Daniel Fried , Carolyn Rose

The explosive growth and increasing sophistication of Android malware call for new defensive techniques that are capable of protecting mobile users against novel threats. In this paper, we first extract the runtime Application Programming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Yanfang Ye , Shifu Hou , Lingwei Chen , Jingwei Lei , Wenqiang Wan , Jiabin Wang , Qi Xiong , Fudong Shao

Model-sharing platforms, such as Hugging Face, ModelScope, and OpenCSG, have become central to modern machine learning development, enabling developers to share, load, and fine-tune pre-trained models with minimal effort. However, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohammed Latif Siddiq , Tanzim Hossain Romel , Natalie Sekerak , Beatrice Casey , Joanna C. S. Santos

We propose a framework to mine API usage scenarios from Stack Overflow. Each task consists of a code example, the task description, and the reactions of developers towards the code example. First, we present an algorithm to automatically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Gias Uddin , Foutse Khomh , Chanchal K Roy

Mobile apps have become ubiquitous. For app developers, it is a key priority to ensure their apps' correctness and reliability. However, many apps still suffer from occasional to frequent crashes, weakening their competitive edge.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Lingling Fan , Ting Su , Sen Chen , Guozhu Meng , Yang Liu , Lihua Xu , Geguang Pu , Zhendong Su

Resource leak bugs in Android apps are pervasive and can cause serious performance degradation and system crashes. In recent years, several resource leak detection techniques have been proposed to assist Android developers in correctly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Yepang Liu , Lili Wei , Chang Xu , Shing-Chi Cheung

Modern GUI agents typically rely on a model-centric and step-wise interaction paradigm, where LLMs must re-interpret the UI and re-decide actions at every screen, which is fragile in long-horizon tasks. In this paper, we propose Executable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zerui Qin , Sheng Yue , Xingyuan Hua , Yongjian Fu , Ju Ren

Mobile applications (apps) are often developed by only a small number of developers with limited resources, especially in the early years of the app's development. In this setting, many requirements acquisition activities, such as…

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