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Mobile app usage behavior reveals human patterns and is crucial for stakeholders, but data collection is costly and raises privacy issues. Data synthesis can address this by generating artificial datasets that mirror real-world data. In…

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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…

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Property-based testing (PBT) is a popular software testing methodology and is effective in validating the functionality of mobile applications (apps for short). However, its adoption in practice remains limited, largely due to the manual…

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Most defects in mobile applications are visually observable on the device screen. To track these defects, users, testers, and developers must manually submit bug reports, especially in the absence of crashes. However, these reports are…

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The widespread use of Android applications has made them a prime target for cyberattacks, significantly increasing the risk of malware that threatens user privacy, security, and device functionality. Effective malware detection is thus…

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Property-based testing (PBT) is a lightweight formal method, typically implemented as a randomized testing framework. Users specify the input domain for their test using combinators supplied by the PBT framework, and the expected properties…

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With recent advances in large language models (LLMs), this paper explores the potential of leveraging state-of-the-art LLMs,such as GPT-4, to transfer existing human-written properties (e.g.,those from Certora auditing reports) and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ye Liu , Yue Xue , Daoyuan Wu , Yuqiang Sun , Yi Li , Miaolei Shi , Yang Liu

Hardware complexity continues to strain verification resources, motivating the adoption of machine learning (ML) methods to improve debug efficiency. However, ML-assisted debugging critically depends on diverse and scalable bug datasets,…

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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

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capability in function-level code generation tasks. Unlike isolated functions, real-world applications demand reasoning over the entire software system: developers must orchestrate…

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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…

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Fuzzing is a technique widely used in vulnerability detection. The process usually involves writing effective fuzz driver programs, which, when done manually, can be extremely labor intensive. Previous attempts at automation leave much to…

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Despite their wide adoption in various domains (e.g., healthcare, finance, software engineering), Deep Learning (DL)-based applications suffer from many bugs, failures, and vulnerabilities. Reproducing these bugs is essential for their…

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Sophisticated evasion tactics in malicious Android applications, combined with their intricate behavioral semantics, enable attackers to conceal malicious logic within legitimate functions, underscoring the critical need for robust and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Guangyu Zhang , Xixuan Wang , Shiyu Sun , Peiyan Xiao , Kun Sun , Yanhai Xiong

Android apps rely heavily on Data Manipulation Functionalities (DMFs) for handling app-specific data through CRUDS operations, making their correctness vital for reliability. However, detecting Data Manipulation Errors (DMEs) is challenging…

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Performance bugs are non-functional bugs that can even manifest in well-tested commercial products. Fixing these performance bugs is an important yet challenging problem. In this work, we address this challenge and present a new approach…

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Mobile apps offer significant benefits, but their privacy protections often remain ineffective and confusing for users. While prior work mainly analyzes app privacy vulnerabilities, few approaches help users understand, set, and enforce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tran Thanh Lam Nguyen , Edoardo Di Tullio , Barbara Carminati , Elena Ferrari

Mobile app GUI (Graphical User Interface) pages now contain rich visual information, with the visual semantics of each page helping users understand the application logic. However, these complex visual and functional logic present new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zhe Liu , Cheng Li , Chunyang Chen , Junjie Wang , Mengzhuo Chen , Boyu Wu , Yawen Wang , Jun Hu , Qing Wang

LLMs excel at code generation, yet ensuring the functional correctness of their outputs remains a persistent challenge. While recent studies have applied Test-Driven Development (TDD) to refine code, these methods are often undermined by…

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The modern software development landscape has seen a shift in focus toward mobile applications as "smart" devices near ubiquitous adoption. Due to this trend, the complexity of mobile applications has been increasing, making development and…

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