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Scripted GUI Testing of Android Apps: A Study on Diffusion, Evolution and Fragility
Riccardo Coppola, Maurizio Morisio, Marco Torchiano
Background. Evidence suggests that mobile applications are not thoroughly tested as their desktop counterparts. In particular GUI testing is generally limited. Like web-based appli…
How Professional Hackers Understand Protected Code while Performing Attack Tasks
Mariano Ceccato, Paolo Tonella, Cataldo Basile +4
Code protections aim at blocking (or at least delaying) reverse engineering and tampering attacks to critical assets within programs. Knowing the way hackers understand protected c…
Assessment of Source Code Obfuscation Techniques
Alessio Viticchié, Leonardo Regano, Marco Torchiano +4
Obfuscation techniques are a general category of software protections widely adopted to prevent malicious tampering of the code by making applications more difficult to understand…
Lessons Learnt in Conducting Survey Research
Marco Torchiano, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Guilherme Horta Travassos +1
Context: Surveys constitute an valuable tool to capture a large-scale snapshot of the state of the practice. Apparently trivial to adopt, surveys hide, however, several pitfalls th…