KDD

When interacting with mobile apps, do users always get what they expect? We have mined thousands of Android apps for common features such as descriptions, APIs used, data flows, and (recently) user interfaces and callbacks. Associating these with each ...

In modern software development, developers often need to migrate code written for one platform in a programming language to another language for a different platform. The migration process is often performed manually or semi-automatically, in which ...

Dynamic behavior of a program can be assessed through examination of events emitted by the program during execution. Temporal properties define the order of occurrence and timing constraints on event occurrence. Such specifications are important for ...

Program analysis is rapidly changing the way we develop software; one of the more important problems is that of function contract creation, as these contracts can greatly increase the quality and performance of the analysis. However, the predominant ...

During software maintenance, developers often receive many bug reports. Project managers often need to manage limited resources to resolve the many bugs that a project receives. To help project managers perform their job, past studies have proposed ...

The Android Open Source Project(AOSP) has seen tremendous traction over the past decade, and as such, the bug repository is growing in scale. With this growth, the effort required for project members to triage incoming new reports to identify whether ...

During software maintenance, testing is a crucial activity to ensure the quality of code as it evolves over time. With the increasing size and complexity of software, adequate software testing has become increasingly important. Developers often ask ...

More and more mobile applications run on multiple mobile operating systems to attract more users of different platforms. Although versions on different platforms are implemented in different programming languages (e.g., Java and Objective-C), there ...