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Mobile devices are used more and more in everyday life. They are our cameras, wallets, and keys. Basically, they embed most of our private information in our pocket. For this and other reasons, mobile devices, and in particular the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Mario Linares-Vasquez , Gabriele Bavota , Camilo Escobar-Velasquez

In recent years, various benchmark suites have been developed to evaluate the efficacy of Android security analysis tools. The choice of such benchmark suites used in tool evaluations is often based on the availability and popularity of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Joydeep Mitra , Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath , Aditya Narkar

Mobile applications have become an essential part of our daily lives, making ensuring their quality an important activity. Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing is a quality assurance method that has frequently been used for mobile apps.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chenhui Cui , Tao Li , Junjie Wang , Chunyang Chen , Dave Towey , Rubing Huang

This demo paper presents the technical details and usage scenarios of $\mu$SE: a mutation-based tool for evaluating security-focused static analysis tools for Android. Mutation testing is generally used by software practitioners to assess…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Amit Seal Ami , Kaushal Kafle , Kevin Moran , Adwait Nadkarni , Denys Poshyvanyk

We describe a workflow used to analyze the source code of the {\sc Android OS kernel} and rate for a particular kind of bugginess that exposes a program to hacking. The workflow represents a novel approach for components' vulnerability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Joseph R. Barr , Peter Shaw , Tyler Thatcher

We present an add-on for the Android platform, capable of intercepting nearly all interactions between apps or apps with the platform, including arguments of method invocations in a human-readable format. A preliminary performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Jan-Christoph Kuester , Andreas Bauer

Today, there are millions of third-party Android applications. Some of these applications are buggy or even malicious. To identify such applications, novel frameworks for automated black-box testing and dynamic analysis are being developed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Aleksandr Pilgun , Olga Gadyatskaya , Stanislav Dashevskyi , Yury Zhauniarovich , Artsiom Kushniarou

The pervasiveness of mobile apps in everyday life necessitates robust testing strategies to ensure quality and efficiency, especially through end-to-end usage-based tests for mobile apps' user interfaces (UIs). However, manually creating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Benyamin Beyzaei , Saghar Talebipour , Ghazal Rafiei , Nenad Medvidovic , Sam Malek

In this paper, we perform a comprehensive study of 2,470 patched Android vulnerabilities that we collect from different data sources such as Android security bulletins, CVEDetails, Qualcomm Code Aurora, AOSP Git repository, and Linux…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Sadegh Farhang , Mehmet Bahadir Kirdan , Aron Laszka , Jens Grossklags

Safety-critical designs need to ensure reliable operations under hostile conditions with a certain degree of confidence. The continuously higher complexity of these designs makes them more susceptible to the risk of failure. ISO26262…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Endri Kaja , Nicolas Gerlin , Luis Rivas , Monideep Bora , Keerthikumara Devarajegowda , Wolfgang Ecker

Context. Multiple automated techniques have been proposed and developed for mobile application GUI testing aiming to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality. The effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality are 3 fundamental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Yauhen Leanidavich Arnatovich , Lipo Wang

Continuous Integration (CI) is a cornerstone of modern collaborative software development, and numerous CI platforms are available. Differences in maintenance overhead, reliability, and integration depth with code-hosting platforms make…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Chong Wang , Chen Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Wunan Guo , Jianfeng Qu , Yewen Tian , Yang Liu

Mobile devices encroach on almost every part of our lives, including work and leisure, and contain a wealth of personal and sensitive information. It is, therefore, imperative that these devices uphold high security standards. A key aspect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Sadegh Farhang , Mehmet Bahadir Kirdan , Aron Laszka , Jens Grossklags

In recent years, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) has been heatedly discussed and widely used in part or all of the software development life cycle as the practices and pipeline to deliver software products in an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yajing Luo , Peng Liang , Mojtaba Shahin , Zengyang Li , Chen Yang

On-device virtual assistants like Siri and Google Assistant are increasingly pivotal, yet their capabilities are hamstrung by a reliance on rigid, developer-dependent APIs. GUI agents offer a powerful, API-independent alternative, but their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ho Fai Leung , Xiaoyan Xi , Fei Zuo

Security of mobile apps affects the security of their users. This has fueled the development of techniques to automatically detect vulnerabilities in mobile apps and help developers secure their apps; specifically, in the context of Android…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Joydeep Mitra , Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath

We consider the problem of generating relevant execution traces to test rich interactive applications. Rich interactive applications, such as apps on mobile platforms, are complex stateful and often distributed systems where sufficiently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Edmund S. L. Lam , Peilun Zhang , Bor-Yuh Evan Chang

Due to hardware-software co-development in embedded systems, continuous integration (CI) builds frequently fail because of complex cross-compilation, board configurations, and toolchain constraints. Although CI build logs contain valuable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Han Fu , Andreas Ermedahl , Sigrid Eldh , Kristian Wiklund , Philipp Haller , Cyrille Artho

Mobile application security has been a major area of focus for security research over the course of the last decade. Numerous application analysis tools have been proposed in response to malicious, curious, or vulnerable apps. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Amit Seal Ami , Kaushal Kafle , Kevin Moran , Adwait Nadkarni , Denys Poshyvanyk

The co-development of hardware and software in industrial embedded systems frequently leads to compilation errors during continuous integration (CI). Automated repair of such failures is promising, but existing techniques rely on test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Han Fu , Sigrid Eldh , Kristian Wiklund , Andreas Ermedahl , Philipp Haller , Cyrille Artho