BUPLinker: Bridging Users and Developers in Mobile Application Evolution
Application (app) user reviews (URs) serve as a crucial data source that can directly and practically influence software design and release planning. Consequently, how developers respond to URs has been extensively investigated. However, bidirectional interactions—particularly how users respond to software changes introduced by developers—remain largely unexplored. Although mobile apps evolve through multiple lifecycle stages, most prior work relies on static analysis, and little is known about how user–developer relationships dynamically coevolve as apps mature. To bridge this gap and clarify the evolving user–developer relationships, we propose a framework that constructs linked UR→pull request (PR) and PR→UR pairs as well as enables longitudinal analysis of bidirectional linking ratios and linking times across an app’s lifecycle—bidirectional UR–PR Linker (BUPLinker). BUPLinker achieves F1-scores of 83.72% for UR→PR linking and 80.00% for PR→UR linking. Our analysis further indicates that UR→PR and PR→UR linking ratios and linking times remain stable across the app lifecycle, exhibiting consistent patterns across apps.
Wed 18 MarDisplayed time zone: Athens change
16:00 - 17:30 | Session 3B - Evolution and Security of Mobile SystemsResearch Track / Short Papers and Posters Track at Megaron Beta Chair(s): Vadim Zaytsev University of Twente | ||
16:00 15mTalk | Relocate and Emulate: Re-Hosting Android’s Application Layer Research Track Thomas Sutter University of Bern, Timo Kehrer University of Bern, Marc Rennhard Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Bernhard Tellenbach Armasuisse Cyber-Defence Campus | ||
16:15 15mTalk | Scratching the Iceberg: Unveiling the Outdated Third-Party Native Libraries in Android Apps Research Track Shiyang Zhang Tianjin University, Chengwei Liu Nankai University, Sen Chen Nankai University, Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University | ||
16:30 15mTalk | Dialing Danger: Large-Scale Mining and Risk Assessment of Android Secret Codes in OEM Firmware Research Track Ruoyan Lin Shandong University, Shishuai Yang Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics, Fenghao Xu Southeast University, Wenrui Diao Shandong University | ||
16:45 15mTalk | InstruMate: A Systematic Framework for Assessing Android App Repackaging Resilience Research Track Leandro de Souza Oliveira , Rodrigo Bonifácio Informatics Center - CIn/UFPE and Computer Science Department / University of Brasília, Joanna C. S. Santos University of Notre Dame, Rui Rua New York University Abu Dhabi | ||
17:00 15mTalk | An Empirical Study of Privacy Leakage Vulnerability in Third-Party Android Logs Libraries Research Track Yixi Zhao University of Waterloo, Kundi Yao Ontario Tech University, Yiming Tang Rochester Institute of Technology, Weiyi Shang University of Waterloo | ||
17:15 7mTalk | AMF-GR: Adaptive Matrix Factorization and Graph Fusion for Android Library Recommendation Short Papers and Posters Track Abhinav Jamwal Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, Sandeep Kumar Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India | ||
17:22 7mTalk | BUPLinker: Bridging Users and Developers in Mobile Application Evolution Short Papers and Posters Track Ayana Uematsu Waseda University, Hironori Washizaki Waseda University, Naoyasu Ubayashi Waseda University, Masanari Kondo Kyushu University, Juichi Takahashi AGEST, Inc, Yohei Takagi AGEST Inc. | ||