ASE 2025
Sun 16 - Thu 20 November 2025 Seoul, South Korea

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 18 Nov 2025 16:40 - 16:50 at Grand Hall 5 - Maintenance & Evolution 3

Managing third-party libraries is a costly and critical task for enterprises, essential for both vulnerability assessment and license compliance. Existing android software composition analysis tools focus on mitigating code obfuscation but neglect the impact of code optimization, which is deeply integrated into build pipelines and disrupts library structure.

To tackle these challenges, we developed LibSleuth, a detection tool designed to be resilient to code shrinking and obfuscation. It is based on the observation that even after shrinking, the remaining code still retains functional completeness. LibSleuth adopts two novel strategies: (1) Method level functional module matching: We break down feature matching to method level and define a functional module as related methods that representing used functionality. This allows us to detect libraries based on functional module completeness to address code shrinking. (2) Context-enhanced multi-level filtering: To improve robustness against obfuscation and reduce the cost of pairing, LibSleuth leverages contextual relationships to enhance feature stability and adopts a coarse-to-fine progressive matching process.

We evaluated LibSleuth on datasets containing obfuscated and optimized Android apps. The results show that LibSleuth outperforms academic state-of-the-art tools and commercial tools in both scenarios. In particular, under code shrinking, LibSleuth achieves an average 26.43% higher F1-score at the version level. Moreover, our analysis of 10,000 real world Android apps shows that 20.35% still depend on vulnerable library, demonstrating the practical applicability of LibSleuth to downstream tasks.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 18 Nov

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16:00 - 17:00
Maintenance & Evolution 3Industry Showcase / NIER Track at Grand Hall 5
16:00
10m
Talk
An Empirical Study on UI Overlap in OpenHarmony Applications
Industry Showcase
Farong Liu Beihang University, Mingyi Zhou Beihang University, Li Li Beihang University
16:10
10m
Talk
Metrics Driven Reengineering and Continuous Code Improvement at Meta
Industry Showcase
Audris Mockus University of Tennessee, Peter C Rigby Meta / Concordia University, Rui Abreu Meta, Nachiappan Nagappan Meta Platforms, Inc.
16:20
10m
Talk
Prompt-with-Me: in-IDE Structured Prompt Management for LLM-Driven Software Engineering
Industry Showcase
Ziyou Li Delft University of Technology, Agnia Sergeyuk JetBrains Research, Maliheh Izadi Delft University of Technology
16:30
10m
Talk
Are We SOLID Yet? An Empirical Study on Prompting LLMs to Detect Design Principle Violations
NIER Track
Fatih Pehlivan Bilkent University, Arçin Ülkü Ergüzen Bilkent University, Sahand Moslemi Yengejeh Bilkent University, Mayasah Lami Bilkent University, Anil Koyuncu Bilkent University
16:40
10m
Talk
Shrunk, Yet Complete: Code Shrinking-Resilient Android Third-Party Library Detection
Industry Showcase
Jingkun Zhang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jingzheng Wu Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiang Ling Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianyue Luo Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bolin Zhou Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mutian Yang Beijing ZhongKeWeiLan Technology Co.,Ltd.
16:50
10m
Talk
LLM-Guided Genetic Improvement: Envisioning Semantic Aware Automated Software Evolution
NIER Track
Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, Alexander E.I. Brownlee University of Stirling, Alina Geiger Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Carol Hanna University College London, Justyna Petke University College London, Federica Sarro University College London, Dominik Sobania Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz