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WebView is a UI widget that helps integrate web applications into the native context of Android apps. It provides powerful mechanisms for bi-directional interactions between the native-end (Java) and the web-end (JavaScript) of an Android…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jiajun Hu , Lili Wei , Yepang Liu , Shing-Chi Cheung

Automated test generation is crucial for ensuring the reliability and robustness of software applications while at the same time reducing the effort needed. While significant progress has been made in test generation research, generating…

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Recently, dataset-generation-based zero-shot learning has shown promising results by training a task-specific model with a dataset synthesized from large pre-trained language models (PLMs). The final task-specific model often achieves…

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Mobile applications have become indispensable companions in our daily lives. Spanning over the categories from communication and entertainment to healthcare and finance, these applications have been influential in every aspect. Despite…

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Several solutions ensuring the dynamic detection of malicious activities on Android ecosystem have been proposed. These are represented by generic rules and models that identify any purported malicious behavior. However, the approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Abdellah Ouaguid , Mohamed Ouzzif , Noreddine Abghour

Problem: We address the challenge in responsible computing where an exploitable mobile app is misused by one app user (an abuser) against another user or bystander (victim). We introduce the idea of a misuse audit of apps as a way of…

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The demand for quality in mobile applications has increased greatly given users' high reliance on them for daily tasks. Developers work tirelessly to ensure that their applications are both functional and user-friendly. In pursuit of this,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Safwat Ali Khan

Many important hyperproperties, such as refinement and generalized non-interference, fall into the class of $\forall\exists$ hyperproperties and require, for each execution trace of a system, the existence of another trace relating to the…

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Runtime enforcers can be used to ensure that running applications satisfy desired correctness properties. Although runtime enforcers that are correct-by-construction with respect to abstract behavioral models are relatively easy to specify,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Oliviero Riganelli , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

Property-based testing (PBT) is a popular technique for automatically testing semantic properties of a program, specified as a pair of pre- and post-conditions. The efficacy of this approach depends on being able to quickly generate inputs…

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Detecting tricky bugs in plausible programs, those that pass existing test suites yet still contain bugs, remains a significant challenge in software testing. To address this problem, we propose TrickCatcher, an LLM-powered approach to…

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This paper studies the problem of fixing malfunctional 3D objects. While previous works focus on building passive perception models to learn the functionality from static 3D objects, we argue that functionality is reckoned with respect to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yining Hong , Kaichun Mo , Li Yi , Leonidas J. Guibas , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Function-level code generation leverages foundation Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically produce source code with expected functionality. It has been widely investigated and applied in intelligent programming assistants, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hao Wen , Yueheng Zhu , Chao Liu , Xiaoxue Ren , Weiwei Du , Meng Yan

Conformance checking techniques detect undesired process behavior by comparing process executions that are recorded in event logs to desired behavior that is captured in a dedicated process model. If such models are not available,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Michael Grohs , Adrian Rebmann , Jana-Rebecca Rehse

Software testing is a core discipline in software engineering where a large array of research results has been produced, notably in the area of automatic test generation. Because existing approaches produce test cases that either can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Laura Plein , Wendkûuni C. Ouédraogo , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Automated Program Repair (APR) has benefited from the code understanding and generation capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing feedback-based APR methods iteratively refine candidate patches using test execution feedback and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Linhao Wu , Yifei Pei , Zhen Yang , Kainan Li , Zhonghang Lu , Hao Tan , Xiran Lyu , Jia Li , Yizhou Chen , Pengyu Xue , Kunwu Zheng , Dan Hao

Explainability, i.e. the ability of a system to explain its behavior to users, has become an important quality of software-intensive systems. Recent work has focused on methods for generating explanations for various algorithmic paradigms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Max Unterbusch , Mersedeh Sadeghi , Jannik Fischbach , Martin Obaidi , Andreas Vogelsang

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on automated software engineering tasks, yet existing benchmarks focus primarily on library-style repositories, leaving mobile application development largely unexplored despite its…

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Automatic program repair (APR) is crucial to reduce manual debugging efforts for developers and improve software reliability. While conventional search-based techniques typically rely on heuristic rules or a redundancy assumption to mine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Weishi Wang , Yue Wang , Shafiq Joty , Steven C. H. Hoi