MOBILESoft 2024
Mon 15 Apr 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
co-located with ICSE 2024
Tracks
Plenary
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Mon 15 Apr

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09:00 - 10:30
Opening + KeynoteResearch Track at Carlos Paredes
09:00
90m
Keynote
Automated Testing and Maintenance of Mobile Applications: Are We There Yet?
Research Track
K: Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakICSE Catering at Open Space
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
ICSE Catering

11:00 - 12:30
Energy-EfficiencyResearch Track at Carlos Paredes
11:00
22m
Full-paper
A Study on the Battery Usage of Deep Learning Frameworks on iOS DevicesFull Paper
Research Track
Vitor Jacques Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Negar Alizadeh Universiteit Utrecht, Fernando Castor University of Twente and Federal University of Pernambuco, Vitor Jacques Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
11:22
22m
Full-paper
An Empirical Study on the Impact of CSS Prefixes on the Energy Consumption and Performance of Mobile Web AppsFull Paper
Research Track
Andrei Bogdan Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
11:45
22m
Full-paper
An Empirical Evaluation of the Energy Consumption of Using Web Push APIs in Mobile Web Apps - The Case of TelegramFull Paper
Research Track
Yu Chen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jinhai Liao , Shutong Cai Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Yiming Zhao Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Yichen Tong Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Ishas Kulkarni Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
12:07
22m
Full-paper
How have iOS Development Technologies Changed over Time? A Study in Open-SourceFull Paper
Research Track
Luciano Baresi Politecnico di Milano, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy, Giovanni Quattrocchi Politecnico di Milano, Damian Andrew Tamburri Jheronimus Academy of Data Science
12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
ICSE Catering

14:00 - 15:30
14:00
22m
Full-paper
Detection of Inconsistencies between Guidance Pages and Actual Data Collection of Third-party SDKs in Android AppsFull Paper
Research Track
Hiroki Inayoshi Okayama University, Shohei Kakei Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, Shoichi Saito Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
DOI Pre-print
14:22
22m
Full-paper
Generating Rate Features for Mobile ApplicationsBest Presentation AwardFull Paper
Research Track
Shristi Shrestha Louisiana State University, Anas "Nash" Mahmoud Louisiana State University
14:45
15m
Short-paper
Toward an Android Static Analysis Approach for Data Protection
Research Forum Track
Mugdha Khedkar Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University, Eric Bodden Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University and Fraunhofer IEM
Pre-print
15:00
15m
Short-paper
Are Your Android App Analyzers Still Relevant?
Research Forum Track
chenhaonan , Daihang Chen Beihang University, China, Yonghui Liu Monash University, Xiaoyu Sun Australian National University, Australia, Li Li Beihang University
15:15
15m
Short-paper
Towards Benchmarking the Coverage of Automated Testing Tools in Android against Manual Testing
Research Forum Track
Ferdian Thung Singapore Management University, Ivana Clairine Irsan Singapore Management University, Jiakun Liu Singapore Management University, David Lo Singapore Management University
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee BreakICSE Catering at Open Space
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
ICSE Catering

16:00 - 17:30
16:00
15m
Short-paper
Dependency Management in iOS Development: A Developer Survey PerspectiveExtended Abstract
Research Track
Ezequiel França dos Santos Universidade Europeia de Lisboa, UE, Portugal.
DOI
16:15
15m
Short-paper
Experiences Developing a Computer Vision SDK for Mobile Apps
Research Forum Track
Julian Harty Commercetest Limited
DOI File Attached
16:30
15m
Short-paper
Towards Speedy Permission-Based Debloating for Android Apps
Research Forum Track
Ferdian Thung Singapore Management University, Jiakun Liu Singapore Management University, Pattarakrit Rattanukul Mahidol University, Shahar Maoz Tel Aviv University, Eran Toch Tel Aviv University, Debin Gao Singapore Management University, David Lo Singapore Management University
16:45
15m
Short-paper
Assessing the environmental impact of mobile applications: a measure framework toward DevGreenOps
Research Forum Track
Edouard Guegain Université de Lille
17:00
15m
Short-paper
CAREForMe: Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit Recommendation Framework for Mental HealthExtended Abstract
Research Track
Sheng Yu University of Southern California, Narjes Nourzad University of Southern California, USA, Randye Semple University of Southern California, Yixue Zhao USC Information Sciences Institute, Emily Zhou University of Southern California, Bhaskar Krishnamachari University of Southern California
Pre-print Media Attached
17:15
15m
Short-paper
Digital Wellbeing Redefined: Toward User-Centric Approach for Positive Social Media Engagement
Research Forum Track
Yixue Zhao USC Information Sciences Institute, Tianyi Li Purdue University, USA, Michael Sobolev University of Southern California
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
17:30 - 18:00

Call for Papers

The technical papers track of MOBILESoft invites high-quality submissions involving both established and emerging solutions for mobile software engineering. These include (but are not limited to) technological advancements, architectural approaches, software security, advancements in design and implementation methods, testing and analysis approaches, user interfaces and HCI, business and organizational issues, and empirical studies. We solicit:

  • Full research papers (up to 10 pages +2 pages for references only):
    • Significant new research contributions.
    • Research that directly impacts mobile software engineering practice.
  • New idea papers (up to 4 pages +1 page for references only):
    • Exciting new directions or techniques that may have yet to be supported by solid experimental results, but are nonetheless supported by strong and well-argued scientific intuitions or preliminary results, as well as concrete plans going forward.
    • Novel studies reporting preliminary insights.
  • Challenge papers (up to 2 pages +1 page for references only):
    • New perspectives that call into question long-held beliefs or conventions.
    • Challenges faced by tech organizations and companies. Challenges should include relevant information and links to data for researchers to attempt to address them.

Papers should include methodology, implementation, results, and discussion as appropriate. Solutions are expected to be rigorously evaluated. The paper must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review elsewhere whilst under consideration at MOBILESoft. We invite contributions from both academia and industry.

Formatting and Submission Instructions

All authors should use the official “ACM Primary Article Template”, as can be obtained from the ACM Proceedings Template page. LaTeX users should use the sigconf option, as well as the review (to produce line numbers for easy reference by the reviewers) and anonymous (omitting author names) options. To that end, the following LaTeX code can be placed at the start of the LaTeX document:

\documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}
\acmConference[ICSE 2024]{46th International Conference on Software Engineering}{April 2024}{Lisbon, Portugal}

All submissions must be in PDF. The page limit is strict. Papers that do not conform to these guidelines will be desk rejected before the review process.

MOBILESoft 2024 will follow a double-blind review process. Thus, no submission may reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honor the double-blind review process. In particular: (i) the authors’ names must be omitted from the submission, (ii) references to their prior work should be in the third person, and (iii) supplementary material (e.g., experiment replication package, YouTube video, source code of the proposed approach) should be provided anonymously. Any submission that does not comply with the double-blind review process will be rejected by the Technical Track PC Co-Chairs without further review. For information on the double-blind review process, please see the Q&A page from prior ICSEs.

Open Science Policy

Just like leading software engineering conferences, such as ICSE, the steering principle of the Open Science policy of MOBILESoft 2024 is that all research results should be accessible to the public and, if possible, empirical studies should be reproducible. In particular, we actively support the adoption of open data and open source principles and encourage all contributing authors to disclose (anonymized and curated) data to increase reproducibility and replicability. Note that sharing research data is not mandatory for submission or acceptance. However, sharing is expected to be the default, and non-sharing needs to be justified. We recognize that reproducibility or replicability is not a goal in qualitative research and that, similar to industrial studies, qualitative studies often face challenges in sharing research data. For guidelines on how to report qualitative research to ensure the assessment of the reliability and credibility of research results, see the Q&A page from prior ICSEs.

Upon submission to the research track, authors are asked:

  • to make their data available to the program committee (via upload of supplemental material or a link to an anonymous repository) – and provide instructions on how to access this data in the paper, possibly in a section named “Data Availability” after the Conclusions; or
  • to include in the paper an explanation as to why this is not possible or desirable; and
  • to indicate if they intend to make their data publicly available upon acceptance. At least one reviewer will check whether the enclosed package contains what is declared in the paper. This quality check process will be very lightweight, and the main aim is to ensure that authors do not submit (partially) empty packages.

Submission

Submissions to the Technical Track can be made via hotCRP.

Review Criteria

Each paper submitted to the Technical Papers Track will be evaluated based on the following criteria (we rely in part on ICSE Review Criteria 2024).

  1. Novelty: The novelty and innovativeness of contributed solutions, problem formulations, methodologies, theories and/or evaluations, i.e., the extent to which the paper is sufficiently original with respect to state-of-the-art.
  2. Rigor: The soundness, clarity and depth of a technical or theoretical contribution, and the level of thoroughness and completeness of an evaluation.
  3. Relevance: The significance and/or potential impact of the research to the field of software engineering.
  4. Verifiability and Transparency: The extent to which the paper includes sufficient information to understand how an innovation works; to understand how data was obtained, analyzed, and interpreted; and how the paper supports independent verification or replication of the paper’s claimed contributions. Any artifacts attached to or linked from the paper may be checked by one reviewer.
  5. Presentation: The clarity of the exposition in the paper.

Reviewers will carefully consider all of the above criteria during the review process, and authors should take great care in clearly addressing them all. The paper should clearly explain and justify the claimed contributions.

Conference Attendance Expectation

If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for MOBILESoft 2024 and present the paper.