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ACID: an API compatibility issue detector for Android apps

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ICSE '22: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3510454.3516854

Published: 19 October 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Android API is frequently updated, and compatibility issues may be induced when the API level supported by the device differs from the API level targeted by app developers. This paper presents ACID, an API compatibility issue detector for Android apps. ACID utilizes API differences and static analysis of Android apps to detect both API invocation compatibility issues and API callback compatibility issues. Our evaluation on 20 benchmark apps from previous studies shows that ACID is more accurate and faster in detecting compatibility issues than state-of-the-art techniques. We also ran ACID on 35 more real-world apps to demonstrate ACID's practical applicability. ACID is available at https://github.com/TSUMahmud/acid and the demonstration video of ACID is available at https://youtu.be/XUNBPMIx2q4.

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ACID: an API compatibility issue detector for Android apps
1. Software and its engineering
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        Software testing and debugging

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Samhi JJust RBissyandé TErnst MKlein JChristakis MPradel M(2024)Call Graph Soundness in Android Static AnalysisProceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis10.1145/3650212.3680333(945-957)Online publication date: 11-Sep-2024
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Mahmud TChe MNgu AYang G(2024)An Empirical Investigation on Android App Testing Practices2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)10.1109/ISSRE62328.2024.00042(355-366)Online publication date: 28-Oct-2024
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Mahmud TChe MYang G(2024)An empirical study on compatibility issues in Android API field evolutionInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107530175(107530)Online publication date: Nov-2024
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