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Although App updates are frequent and software engineers would like to verify updated features only, automated testing techniques verify entire Apps and are thus wasting resources. We present Continuous Adaptation of Learned Models (CALM),…

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Branching and merging are common practices in collaborative software development, increasing developer's productivity. Despite such benefits, developers need to merge software and resolve merge conflicts. While modern merge techniques can…

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Automatic testing of mobile applications has been a well-researched area in recent years. However, testing in industry is still a very manual practice, as research results have not been fully transferred and adopted. Considering mobile…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Stefan Karlsson , Adnan Čaušević , Daniel Sundmark , Mårten Larsson

Existing memory reclamation policies on mobile devices may be no longer valid because they have negative effects on the response time of running applications. In this paper, we propose SWAM, a new integrated memory management technique that…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Geunsik Lim , Donghyun Kang , MyungJoo Ham , Young Ik Eom

Voice Assistant (VA) in smartphones has become very popular with millions of users nowadays. A key trend is the rise of custom VA embedding, which enables users to perform the customized tasks of their favorite app through voice control.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Garrett Weaver , Xue Qin

Despite being one of the largest and most popular projects, the official Android framework has only provided test cases for less than 30% of its APIs. Such a poor test case coverage rate has led to many compatibility issues that can cause…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Xiaoyu Sun , Xiao Chen , Yanjie Zhao , Pei Liu , John Grundy , Li Li

Android Apps are frequently updated, every couple of weeks, to keep up with changing user, hardware and business demands. Correctness of App updates is checked through extensive testing. Recent research has proposed tools for automated GUI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Chao Peng , Ajitha Rajan

GUI is a bridge connecting user and application. Existing GUI testing tasks can be categorized into two groups: functionality testing and compatibility testing. While the functionality testing focuses on detecting application runtime bugs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Jiaming Ye , Mulong Xie , Siyuan Chen , Fuyuan Zhang , Lei Ma , Zhenchang Xing , Jianjun Zhao

The Android OS has become the most popular mobile operating system leading to a significant increase in the spread of Android malware. Consequently, several static and dynamic analysis systems have been developed to detect Android malware.…

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Android OS is severely fragmented by API updates and device vendors' OS customization, creating a market condition where vastly different OS versions coexist. This gives rise to compatibility crash problems where Android apps crash on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Donghwi Kim , Hyungjun Yoon , Chang Min Park , Sujin Han , Youngjin Kwon , Steven Y. Ko , Sung-Ju Lee

This paper investigates the application of large language models (LLM) in the domain of mobile application test script generation. Test script generation is a vital component of software testing, enabling efficient and reliable automation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Yuchen Ling , Chentian Wu , Zhenyu Chen

Designing user interfaces (UIs) is a critical step when launching products, building portfolios, or personalizing projects, yet end users without design expertise often struggle to articulate their intent and to trust design choices.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Junling Wang , Hongyi Lan , Xiaotian Su , Mustafa Doga Dogan , April Yi Wang

Mobile application performance is a vital factor for user experience. Yet, performance issues are notoriously difficult to detect in development environments, where they often manifest less conspicuously, making their diagnosis more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zhengquan Li , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Dynamically executing specific target methods in Android applications remains a critical and unresolved challenge. Despite notable advancements in GUI testing, current tools are insufficient for reliably driving execution toward specific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Samuele Doria , Eleonora Losiouk

Writing and maintaining UI tests for mobile apps is a time-consuming and tedious task. While decades of research have produced automated approaches for UI test generation, these approaches typically focus on testing for crashes or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yixue Zhao , Saghar Talebipour , Kesina Baral , Hyojae Park , Leon Yee , Safwat Ali Khan , Yuriy Brun , Nenad Medvidovic , Kevin Moran

Android User Interface (UI) testing is a critical research area due to the ubiquity of apps and the challenges faced by developers. Record and replay (R&R) tools facilitate manual and automated UI testing by recording UI actions to execute…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zihe Song , S M Hasan Mansur , Ravishka Rathnasuriya , Yumna Fatima , Wei Yang , Kevin Moran , Wing Lam

Generating test cases through automatic app exploration is very useful for analyzing and testing Android apps. However, test cases generated by current app-exploration tools are not reproducible, i.e. when the generated test case is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Ziniu Hu , Yun Ma , Yangyang Huang

Application Programming Interface (API) incompatibility is a long-standing issue in Android application development. The rapid evolution of Android APIs results in a significant number of API additions, removals, and changes between…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Shidong Pan , Tianchen Guo , Lihong Zhang , Pei Liu , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaoyu Sun

The recent surge of building software systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to the development of various testing frameworks, primarily focused on treating prompt templates as the unit of testing. Despite the significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Juyeon Yoon , Robert Feldt , Shin Yoo

Commit messages are important for software development and maintenance. Many neural network-based approaches have been proposed and shown promising results on automatic commit message generation. However, the generated commit messages could…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ensheng Shi , Yanlin Wang , Wei Tao , Lun Du , Hongyu Zhang , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang , Hongbin Sun