Beyond google play: A large-scale comparative study of chinese android app markets

H Wang, Z Liu, J Liang, N Vallina-Rodriguez… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
China is one of the largest Android markets in the world. As Chinese users cannot access
Google Play to buy and install Android apps, a number of independent app stores have …

Learning user interface element interactions

C Degott, NP Borges Jr, A Zeller - Proceedings of the 28th ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
When generating tests for graphical user interfaces, one central problem is to identify how
individual UI elements can be interacted with—clicking, long-or right-clicking, swiping …

Recommending and release planning of user-driven functionality deletion for mobile apps

M Nayebi, K Kuznetsov, A Zeller, G Ruhe - Requirements Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Evolving software with an increasing number of features poses challenges in terms of
comprehensibility and usability. Traditional software release planning has pre-dominantly …

Automatically granted permissions in Android apps: An empirical study on their prevalence and on the potential threats for privacy

P Calciati, K Kuznetsov, A Gorla, A Zeller - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Developers continuously update their Android apps to keep up with competitors in the
market. Such constant updates do not bother end users, since by default the Android …

UiAnalyzer: Evaluating whether the UI of apps is at the risk of violating the design conventions in terms of function layout

S Gao, Y Wang, H Liu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
There are many unofficial but widely accepted design conventions on the function layout of
the user interface (UI) of apps, which include the position of functions and position …

Empirical comparison of text-based mobile apps similarity measurement techniques

A Al-Subaihin, F Sarro, S Black, L Capra - Empirical Software Engineering, 2019 - Springer
Context Code-free software similarity detection techniques have been used to support
different software engineering tasks, including clustering mobile applications (apps). The …

Revisiting android app categorization

M Alecci, J Samhi, TF Bissyandé, J Klein - Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Numerous tools rely on automatic categorization of Android apps as part of their
methodology. However, incorrect categorization can lead to inaccurate outcomes, such as a …

An efficient density-based local outlier detection approach for scattered data

S Su, L Xiao, L Ruan, F Gu, S Li, Z Wang, R Xu - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
After the local outlier factor was first proposed, there is a large family of local outlier detection
approaches derived from it. Since the existing approaches only focus on the extent of overall …

Guiding app testing with mined interaction models

NP Borges Jr, M Gómez, A Zeller - … of the 5th International Conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Test generators for graphical user interfaces must constantly choose which UI element to
interact with, and how. We guide this choice by mining associations between UI elements …

Measuring user perception for detecting unexpected access to sensitive resource in mobile apps

TT Nguyen, DC Nguyen, M Schilling, G Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Understanding users' perception of app behaviors is an important step to detect data access
that violates user expectations. While existing works have used various proxies to infer user …