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We propose Secure Pick Up (SPU), a convenient, lightweight, in-device, non-intrusive and automatic-learning system for smartphone user authentication. Operating in the background, our system implicitly observes users' phone pick-up…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Wei-Han Lee , Xiaochen Liu , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Ruby B. Lee

Mobile software apps ("apps") are one of the prevailing digital technologies that our modern life heavily depends on. A key issue in the development of apps is how to design gender-inclusive apps. Apps that do not consider gender inclusion,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Mojtaba Shahin , Mansooreh Zahedi , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Ali Rezaei Nasab

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) plays a critical role in the interaction between users and mobile applications (apps), aiming at facilitating the operation process. However, due to the variety of functions and non-standardized design,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Mengxi Zhang , Huaxiao Liu , Chunyang Chen , Guangyong Gao , Han Li , Jian Zhao

Crowdtesting is effective especially when it comes to the feedback on GUI systems, or subjective opinions about features. Despite of this, we find crowdtesting reports are highly replicated, i.e., 82% of them are replicates of others. Hence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Junjie Wang , Mingyang Li , Song Wang , Tim Menzies , Qing Wang

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is one of the major declarative programming paradigms in the area of logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Despite that ASP features a simple syntax and an intuitive semantics, errors are common during…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Carmine Dodaro , Philip Gasteiger , Kristian Reale , Francesco Ricca , Konstantin Schekotihin

Everyday services of society increasingly rely on mobile applications, resulting in a conflicting situation between the possibility of participation on the one side and user privacy and digital freedom on the other. In order to protect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Cornell Ziepel , Stephan Escher , Sebastian Rehms , Stefan Köpsell

Exploratory GUI testing is a particularly demanding setting for MLLM agents: without predefined test scripts, an agent must autonomously navigate an application and discover defects through its own interaction. However, current evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaoyi Chen , Yifei Gao , Yang Xu , Xingxing Song , Yi Zhang , Jitao Sang

Mobile application developers are required to disclose how they collect, use, and share user data in compliance with privacy regulations. To support transparency, major app marketplaces have introduced standardized disclosure mechanisms. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Luca Ferrari , Billel Habbati , Meriem Guerar , Mariano Ceccato , Luca Verderame

Android applications (apps) grow dramatically in recent years. Apps are user interface (UI) centric typically. Rapid UI responsiveness is key consideration to app developers. However, we still lack a handy tool for profiling app performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Yu Kang , Yangfan Zhou , Hui Xu , Michael R. Lyu

GUI responsiveness is critical for a positive user experience in mobile applications. Even brief delays in visual feedback can frustrate users and lead to negative reviews. However, detecting and quantifying such user-perceived delays…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wei Liu , Linqiang Guo , Yi Wen Heng , Chenglin Li , Tse-Hsun , Chen , Ahmed E. Hassan

Failure to consider the characteristics, limitations, and abilities of diverse end-users during mobile apps development may lead to problems for end-users such as accessibility and usability issues. We refer to this class of problems as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Mojtaba Shahin , Humphrey O. Obie , Pragya Agrawal , John Grundy

Software applications have been playing an increasingly important role in various aspects of society. In particular, mobile apps and web apps are the most prevalent among all applications and are widely used in various industries as well as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Xin Li , Yuchen Ling , Zhenyu Chen , Zhendong Su

Android apps should be designed to cope with stop-start events, which are the events that require stopping and restoring the execution of an app while leaving its state unaltered. These events can be caused by run-time configuration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Oliviero Riganelli , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

Mobile app development involves a unique set of challenges including device fragmentation and rapidly evolving platforms, making testing a difficult task. The design space for a comprehensive mobile testing strategy includes features,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Mario Linares Vasquez , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk

Automated input generators are widely used for large-scale dynamic analysis of mobile apps. Such input generators must constantly choose which UI element to interact with and how to interact with it, in order to achieve high coverage with a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yuanchun Li , Ziyue Yang , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen

Block-based programming environments are increasingly used to introduce computing concepts to beginners. However, novice students often struggle in these environments, given the conceptual and open-ended nature of programming tasks. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Ahana Ghosh , Sebastian Tschiatschek , Sam Devlin , Adish Singla

API misuse introduces security vulnerabilities, system failures, and increases maintenance costs, all of which remain critical challenges in software development. Existing detection approaches rely on static analysis or machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Saikat Mondal , Chanchal K. Roy , Hong Wang , Juan Arguello , Samantha Mathan

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents are designed to automate complex tasks on digital devices, such as smartphones and desktops. Most existing GUI agents interact with the environment through extracted structured data, which can be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Kanzhi Cheng , Qiushi Sun , Yougang Chu , Fangzhi Xu , Yantao Li , Jianbing Zhang , Zhiyong Wu

Despite engineering workflows that aim to prevent buggy code from being deployed, bugs still make their way into the Facebook app. When symptoms of these bugs, such as user submitted reports and automatically captured crashes, are reported,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Vijayaraghavan Murali , Edward Yao , Umang Mathur , Satish Chandra

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is an expressive knowledge representation and reasoning framework. Due to its rather simple syntax paired with high-performance solvers, ASP is interesting for industrial applications. However, to err is human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Philip Gasteiger , Carmine Dodaro , Benjamin Musitsch , Kristian Reale , Francesco Ricca , Konstantin Schekotihin