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

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 19 Nov 2025 14:10 - 14:20 at Grand Hall 3 - Web & Mobile Systems 2

As mobile applications (i.e., apps) increasingly manage a wide variety of user needs, their access to sensitive data intensifies privacy concerns among users. While app markets employ permissions to regulate the private data access, the lack of explanation of permission uses render this mechanism less successful. Existing techniques that extract explanatory sentences from app descriptions to inform users about sensitive behaviors are also limited, as many app behaviors remain unexplained in their descriptions. To tackle these issues, we propose AppBDS, a novel approach that integrates program analysis with Large Language Models (LLM) to process code semantics and UI contexts, complemented by privacy policies and information from similar apps, to generate detailed explanations for apps’ sensitive behaviors. Specifically, AppBDS integrates code semantics with UI contexts to build a UI-Fused Call Graph (UCG) for each app. Additionally, AppBDS summarizes permission-related propositions from privacy policies and utilizes similar apps’ information from a curated knowledge base (PP-KB) to improve LLMs’ domain knowledge in explaining permission uses. In particular, AppBDS curates the PP-KB by using LLMs to extract permissionrelated propositions and infer permission descriptions of apps from a wide range of categories. Our evaluation results on 270 real apps indicate that AppBDS significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in terms of factuality and semantic richness, as validated through extensive experiments and manual inspection.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 19 Nov

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14:00 - 15:30
14:00
10m
Talk
Adaptive and accessible user interfaces for seniors through model-driven engineering
Journal-First Track
Shavindra Wickramathilaka Monash University, John Grundy Monash University, Kashumi Madampe Monash University, Australia, Omar Haggag Monash University, Australia
Link to publication DOI
14:10
10m
Talk
AppBDS: LLM-Powered Description Synthesis for Sensitive Behaviors in Mobile Apps
Research Papers
Zichen Liu Arizona State University, Xusheng Xiao Arizona State University
14:20
10m
Talk
Large Language Models for Automated Web-Form-Test Generation: An Empirical Study
Journal-First Track
Tao Li Macau University of Science and Technology, Chenhui Cui Macau University of Science and Technology, Rubing Huang Macau University of Science and Technology (M.U.S.T.), Dave Towey University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Lei Ma The University of Tokyo & University of Alberta
14:30
10m
Talk
Beyond Static GUI Agent: Evolving LLM-based GUI Testing via Dynamic Memory
Research Papers
Mengzhuo Chen Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhe Liu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chunyang Chen TU Munich, Junjie Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangguang Xue University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Boyu Wu Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuekai Huang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Libin Wu Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qing Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences
14:40
10m
Talk
Who's to Blame? Rethinking the Brittleness of Automated Web GUI Testing from a Pragmatic Perspective
Research Papers
Haonan Zhang University of Waterloo, Kundi Yao University of Waterloo, Zishuo Ding The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Lizhi Liao Memorial University of Newfoundland, Weiyi Shang University of Waterloo
14:50
10m
Talk
LLM-Cure: LLM-based Competitor User Review Analysis for Feature Enhancement
Journal-First Track
Maram Assi Université du Québec à Montréal, Safwat Hassan University of Toronto, Ying Zou Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
15:00
10m
Talk
MIMIC: Integrating Diverse Personality Traits for Better Game Testing Using Large Language Model
Research Papers
Yifei Chen McGill University, Sarra Habchi Cohere, Canada, Lili Wei McGill University
Pre-print
15:10
10m
Talk
Debun: Detecting Bundled JavaScript Libraries on Web using Property-Order Graphs
Research Papers
Seojin Kim North Carolina State University, Sungmin Park Korea University, Jihyeok Park Korea University
15:20
10m
Talk
GUIFuzz++: Unleashing Grey-box Fuzzing on Desktop Graphical User Interfacing Applications
Research Papers
Dillon Otto University of Utah, Tanner Rowlett University of Utah, Stefan Nagy University of Utah
Pre-print