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Fri 2 May 2025 16:15 - 16:30 at 203 - Process Chair(s): Luigi Benedicenti

With mobile apps playing an increasingly vital role in our daily lives, the importance of ensuring their accessibility for users with disabilities is also growing. Despite this, app developers often overlook the accessibility challenges encountered by users of assistive technologies, such as screen readers. Screen reader users typically navigate content sequentially, focusing on one element at a time, unaware of changes occurring elsewhere in the app. While dynamic changes to content displayed on an app’s user interface may be apparent to sighted users, they pose significant accessibility obstacles for screen reader users. Existing accessibility testing tools are unable to identify challenges faced by blind users resulting from dynamic content changes. In this work, we first conduct a formative user study on dynamic changes in Android apps and their accessibility barriers for screen reader users. We then present TIMESTUMP, an automated framework that leverages our findings in the formative study to detect accessibility issues regarding dynamic changes. Finally, we empirically evaluate TIMESTUMP on real-world apps to assess its effectiveness and efficiency in detecting such accessibility issues.

Fri 2 May

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16:00 - 17:30
16:00
15m
Talk
Full Line Code Completion: Bringing AI to Desktop
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Anton Semenkin JetBrains, Vitaliy Bibaev JetBrains, Yaroslav Sokolov JetBrains, Kirill Krylov JetBrains, Alexey Kalina JetBrains, Anna Khannanova JetBrains, Danila Savenkov JetBrains, Darya Rovdo JetBrains, Igor Davidenko JetBrains, Kirill Karnaukhov JetBrains, Maxim Vakhrushev JetBrains, Mikhail Kostyukov JetBrains, Mikhail Podvitskii JetBrains, Petr Surkov JetBrains, Yaroslav Golubev JetBrains Research, Nikita Povarov JetBrains, Timofey Bryksin JetBrains Research
Pre-print
16:15
15m
Talk
Automated Accessibility Analysis of Dynamic Content Changes on Mobile Apps
Research Track
Forough Mehralian University of California at Irvine, Ziyao He University of California, Irvine, Sam Malek University of California at Irvine
16:30
15m
Talk
Qualitative Surveys in Software Engineering Research: Definition, Critical Review, and GuidelinesResearch Methods
Journal-first Papers
Jorge Melegati Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Kieran Conboy University of Galway, Daniel Graziotin University of Hohenheim
Link to publication DOI
16:45
15m
Talk
VulNet: Towards improving vulnerability management in the Maven ecosystemSecurity
Journal-first Papers
Zeyang Ma Concordia University, Shouvick Mondal IIT Gandhinagar, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University, Haoxiang Zhang Centre for Software Excellence at Huawei Canada, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University, Zeyang Ma Concordia University
17:00
15m
Talk
Energy-Aware Software Testing
New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER)
Roberto Verdecchia University of Florence, Emilio Cruciani European University of Rome, Antonia Bertolino Gran Sasso Science Institute, Breno Miranda Centro de Informática at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Pre-print
17:15
7m
Talk
SusDevOps: Promoting Sustainability to a First Principle in Software Delivery
New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER)
Istvan David McMaster University / McMaster Centre for Software Certification (McSCert)
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