* ICSE 2018 *
Sun 27 May - Sun 3 June 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
Wed 30 May 2018 11:40 - 12:00 at H2 room - Apps and App Stores I Chair(s): Jocelyn Simmonds

Detecting emerging issues (e.g., new bugs) timely and precisely is crucial for developers to update their apps. App reviews provide an opportunity to proactively collect user complaints and promptly improve apps’ user experience, in terms of bug fixing and feature refinement. However, the tremendous quantities of reviews and noise words (e.g., misspelled words) increase the difficulties in accurately identifying newly-appearing app issues. In this paper, we propose a novel and automated framework IDEA, which aims to IDentify Emerging App issues effectively based on online review analysis. We evaluate IDEA on six popular apps from Google Play and Apple’s App Store, employing the official app changelogs as our ground truth. Experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of IDEA in identifying emerging app issues. Feedback from engineers and product managers shows that 88.9% of them think that the identified issues can facilitate app development in practice. Moreover, we have successfully applied IDEA to several products of Tencent, which serve hundreds of millions of users.

Wed 30 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Apps and App Stores ITechnical Papers / Journal first papers at H2 room
Chair(s): Jocelyn Simmonds University of Chile
11:00
20m
Talk
Software Protection on the Go: A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Mobile App Obfuscation
Technical Papers
Pei Wang Pennsylvania State University, Qinkun Bao , Li Wang , Shuai Wang , Zhaofeng Chen , Tao Wei , Dinghao Wu
Pre-print Media Attached
11:20
20m
Talk
GUILeak: Tracing Privacy-Policy Claims on User Input Data for Android Applications
Technical Papers
Xiaoyin Wang University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, Xue Qin , Mitra Bokaei Hosseini , Rocky Slavin , Travis Breaux Carnegie Mellon University, Jianwei Niu
11:40
20m
Talk
Online App Review Analysis for Identifying Emerging Issues
Technical Papers
Cuiyun Gao Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jichuan Zeng , Michael Lyu , Irwin King
Pre-print
12:00
20m
Talk
EARMO: An Energy-Aware Refactoring Approach for Mobile Apps
Journal first papers
Rodrigo Morales Concordia University, Rubén Saborido Infantes , Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal, Francisco Chicano , Giuliano Antoniol Polytechnique Montréal
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
12:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
Technical Papers