Third-party libraries (TPLs) have become a significant part of the Android ecosystem.
Developers can employ various TPLs with different functionalities to facilitate their app …

Third-party libraries (TPLs) as essential parts in the mobile ecosystem have become one of
the most significant contributors to the huge success of Android, which facilitate the fast …

For ensuring the reliability of Android apps, there has been tremendous, continuous
progress on improving automated GUI testing in the past decade. Specifically, dozens of …

Android apps are ubiquitous and serve many aspects of our daily lives. Ensuring their
functional correctness is crucial for their success. To date, we still lack a general and in …

Due to the sheer size of software logs, developers rely on automated techniques for log
analysis. One of the first and most important steps of automated log analysis is log …

Intense competition in the mobile apps market means it is important to maintain high levels
of app reliability to avoid losing users. Yet despite its importance, app reliability is …

To enhance the compatibility in the version control of Java Third-party Libraries (TPLs),
Maven adopts Semantic Versioning (SemVer) to standardize the underlying meaning of …

Android, the most popular mobile system, offers a number of user-configurable system
settings (eg, network, location, and permission) for controlling devices and apps. Even …

Android apps are GUI-based event-driven software and have become ubiquitous in recent
years. Obviously, functional correctness is critical for an app's success. However, in addition …

Static application security testing (SAST) takes a significant role in the software development
life cycle (SDLC). However, it is challenging to comprehensively evaluate the effectiveness …