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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia
Wed 17 May 2023 11:30 - 11:45 at Meeting Room 105 - APIs and libraries Chair(s): Sarah Nadi

Android API-related compatibility issues have become a severe problem and significant challenge for app developers due to the well-known Android fragmentation issues. To address this problem, many effective approaches such as app-based and API lifecycle-based methods have been proposed to identify incompatible API usages. However, due to the various implementations of API usages and different API invoking paths, there is still a significant weakness of existing approaches, i.e., introducing a massive number of false positives (FP) and false negatives (FN).

To this end, in this paper, we propose PSDroid, an automated compatibility detection approach for Android apps, which aims to reduce FPs and FNs by overcoming several technical bottlenecks. Firstly, we make substantial efforts to carry out a preliminary study to summarize a set of novel API usages with diverse checking implementations. Secondly, we construct a refined API lifecycle database by leveraging a semantic resolving analysis on all existing Android SDK frameworks. Based on the above two key phases, we design and implement a novel path-sensitive semantic approach to effectively and automatically detect incompatibility issues. To demonstrate the performance of PSDroid, we compared PSDroid with five existing approaches (i.e., FicFinder, ACRYL, CIDER, IctAPIFinder, and CiD) and the results show that PSDroid outperforms existing tools. We also conducted an in-depth root cause analysis to comprehensively explain the ability of PSDroid in reducing FPs and FNs. Finally, 16/30 reported issues have been confirmed and further fixed by app developers.

Wed 17 May

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

11:00 - 12:30
11:00
15m
Talk
UpCy: Safely Updating Outdated Dependencies
Technical Track
Andreas Dann Paderborn University, Ben Hermann TU Dortmund, Eric Bodden Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University and Fraunhofer IEM
Pre-print
11:15
15m
Talk
APICAD: Augmenting API Misuse Detection Through Specifications From Code And Documents
Technical Track
Xiaoke Wang Wuhan University, Lei Zhao Wuhan University
DOI Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
Compatibility Issue Detection for Android Apps Based on Path-Sensitive Semantic Analysis
Technical Track
Sen Yang Army Engineering University of PLA, Sen Chen Tianjin University, Lingling Fan Nankai University, Sihan Xu Nankai University, China, Zhanwei Hui Academy of Military Science, Song Huang Army Engineering University of PLA
11:45
15m
Talk
OSSFP: Precise and Scalable C/C++ Third-Party Library Detection using Fingerprinting Functions
Technical Track
Wu Jiahui Nanyang Technological University, Zhengzi Xu Nanyang Technological University, Wei Tang Tsinghua University, Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Yueming Wu Nanyang Technological University, Chengyue Liu Scantist, Kairan Sun Singapore University of Technology and Design, Lida Zhao Nanyang Technological University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University
12:00
15m
Talk
Scaling Web API Integrations
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Pre-print
12:15
7m
Talk
Giving Back: Contributions Congruent to Library Dependency Changes in a Software Ecosystem
Journal-First Papers
Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Dong Wang Kyushu University, Japan, Raula Gaikovina Kula Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Christoph Treude University of Melbourne, Patanamon Thongtanunam University of Melbourne, Takashi Ishio Future University Hakodate, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Link to publication
12:22
7m
Talk
Breaking Bad? Semantic Versioning and Impact of Breaking Changes in Maven Central
Journal-First Papers
Lina Ochoa Eindhoven University of Technology, Thomas Degueule CNRS, LaBRI, Jean-Rémy Falleri Bordeaux INP, Jurgen Vinju CWI; Eindhoven University of Technology