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Tue 11 Oct 2022 15:10 - 15:30 at Gold A - Technical Session 8 - Mobile Apps II Chair(s): Wei Yang

As the bridge between users and software, Graphical User Interface (GUI) is critical to the app accessibility. Scaling up the font or display size of GUI can help improve the visual impact, readability, and usability of an app, and is frequently used by the elderly and people with vision impairment. Yet this can easily lead to scaling issues such as text truncation, component overlap, which negatively influence the acquirement of the right information and the fluent usage of the app. Previous techniques for UI display issue detection and cross-platform inconsistency detection cannot work well for these scaling issues. In this paper, we propose an automated method, dVermin, for scaling issue detection, through detecting the inconsistency of a view under the default and a larger display scale. The evaluation result shows that dVermin achieves 97% precision and 97% recall in issue page detection, and 84% precision and 91% recall for issue view detection, outperforming two state-of-the-art baselines by a large margin. We also evaluate dVermin with popular Android apps on F-droid, and successfully uncover 21 previously-undetected scaling issues with 20 of them being confirmed/fixed.

Tue 11 Oct

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14:00 - 15:30
Technical Session 8 - Mobile Apps IIResearch Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Gold A
Chair(s): Wei Yang University of Texas at Dallas
14:00
20m
Research paper
Too Much Accessibility is Harmful! Automated Detection and Analysis of Overly Accessible Elements in Mobile Apps
Research Papers
Forough Mehralian University of California at Irvine, Navid Salehnamadi University of California at Irvine, Syed Fatiul Huq University of California, Irvine, Sam Malek University of California at Irvine, USA
14:20
20m
Research paper
Groundhog: An Automated Accessibility Crawler for Mobile Apps
Research Papers
Navid Salehnamadi University of California at Irvine, Forough Mehralian University of California at Irvine, Sam Malek University of California at Irvine, USA
14:40
20m
Research paper
Unsupervised Summarization of Privacy Concerns in Mobile Application Reviews
Research Papers
Fahimeh Ebrahimi Louisiana State University, Anas "Nash" Mahmoud Louisiana State University
15:00
10m
Demonstration
ecoCode: a SonarQube Plugin to Remove Energy Smells from Android Projects
Tool Demonstrations
Olivier Le Goaër LIUPPA, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Julien Hertout Snapp'
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15:10
20m
Research paper
The Metamorphosis: Automatic Detection of Scaling Issues for Mobile AppsVirtual
Research Papers
Yuhui Su Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chunyang Chen Monash University, Junjie Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhe Liu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dandan Wang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shoubin Li ISCAS, Qing Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences
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