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ISSTA 2018
Sun 15 - Sat 21 July 2018 Amsterdam, Netherlands
co-located with ECOOP and ISSTA 2018
Tue 17 Jul 2018 09:20 - 09:40 at Zurich II - Mobile Chair(s): Andreas Zeller

The Android Application Programming Interface provides the necessary building blocks for app developers to harness the functionalities of the Android devices, including for interacting with services and accessing hardware. This API thus evolves rapidly to meet new requirements for security, performance and advanced features, creating a race for developers to update apps. Unfortunately, given the extent of the API and the lack of automated alerts on important changes, Android apps are suffered from API-related compatibility issues. These issues can manifest themselves as runtime crashes creating a poor user experience. We propose in this paper an automated approach named \tool{} for systematically modelling the lifecycle of the Android APIs and analysing app bytecode to flag usages that can lead to potential compatibility issues. We demonstrate the usefulness of CiD by helping developers repair their apps, and we validate that our tool outperforms the state-of-the-art on benchmark apps that take into account several challenges for automatic detection.

Tue 17 Jul

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09:00 - 10:30
MobileISSTA Technical Papers at Zurich II
Chair(s): Andreas Zeller Saarland University
09:00
20m
Talk
Automatically Translating Bug Reports into Test Cases for Mobile Apps
ISSTA Technical Papers
Mattia Fazzini Georgia Institute of Technology, Martin Prammer Georgia Institute of Technology, Marcelo d'Amorim Federal University of Pernambuco, Alessandro Orso Georgia Tech
09:20
20m
Talk
CiD: Automating the Detection of API-related Compatibility Issues in Android Apps
ISSTA Technical Papers
Li Li Monash University, Australia, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Haoyu Wang , Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, SnT
09:40
20m
Talk
Test Migration for Efficient Large-Scale Assessment of Mobile App Coding Assignments
ISSTA Technical Papers
Farnaz Behrang Georgia Institute of Technology, Alessandro Orso Georgia Tech
10:00
20m
Talk
Analyzing the Analyzers: FlowDroid/IccTA, AmanDroid, and DroidSafeDistinguished Paper
ISSTA Technical Papers
Lina Qiu University of British Columbia, Yingying Wang , Julia Rubin University of British Columbia
10:20
10m
Q&A in groups
ISSTA Technical Papers