6 papers
Incremental Context-free Grammar Inference in Black Box Settings
Feifei Li, Xiao Chen, Xi Xiao +4
Black-box context-free grammar inference presents a significant challenge in many practical settings due to limited access to example programs. The state-of-the-art methods, Arvada…
A Comparative Study of Smartphone and Smart TV Apps
Yonghui Liu, Xiao Chen, Yue Liu +6
Context: Smart TVs have become one of the most popular television types. Many app developers and service providers have designed TV versions for their smartphone applications. Desp…
A First Look at CI/CD Adoptions in Open-Source Android Apps
Pei Liu, Xiaoyu Sun, Yanjie Zhao +3
Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) have been demonstrated to be effective in facilitating software building, testing, and deployment. Many research studies ha…
Demystifying Hidden Sensitive Operations in Android apps
Xiaoyu Sun, Xiao Chen, Li Li +5
Security of Android devices is now paramount, given their wide adoption among consumers. As researchers develop tools for statically or dynamically detecting suspicious apps, malwa…
JuCify: A Step Towards Android Code Unification for Enhanced Static Analysis
Jordan Samhi, Jun Gao, Nadia Daoudi +6
Native code is now commonplace within Android app packages where it co-exists and interacts with Dex bytecode through the Java Native Interface to deliver rich app functionalities.…
Characterizing Sensor Leaks in Android Apps
Xiaoyu Sun, Xiao Chen, Kui Liu +3
While extremely valuable to achieve advanced functions, mobile phone sensors can be abused by attackers to implement malicious activities in Android apps, as experimentally demonst…