---
_id: '61546'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: <jats:p>Fuzzing is a powerful software testing technique renowned for its
    effectiveness in identifying software vulnerabilities. Traditional fuzzing evaluations
    typically focus on overall fuzzer performance across a set of target programs,
    yet few benchmarks consider how fine-grained program features influence fuzzing
    effectiveness. To bridge this gap, we introduce FeatureBench, a novel benchmark
    designed to generate programs with configurable, fine-grained program features
    to enhance fuzzing evaluations. We reviewed 25 recent grey-box fuzzing studies,
    extracting 7 program features related to control-flow and data-flow that can impact
    fuzzer performance. Using these features, we generated a benchmark consisting
    of 153 programs controlled by 10 fine-grained configurable parameters. We evaluated
    11 fuzzers using this benchmark, with each fuzzer representing either distinct
    claimed improvements or serving as a widely used baseline in fuzzing evaluations.
    The results indicate that fuzzer performance varies significantly based on the
    program features and their strengths, highlighting the importance of incorporating
    program characteristics into fuzzing evaluations.</jats:p>
author:
- first_name: Miao
  full_name: Miao, Miao
  last_name: Miao
- first_name: Sriteja
  full_name: Kummita, Sriteja
  id: '72582'
  last_name: Kummita
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
- first_name: Shiyi
  full_name: Wei, Shiyi
  last_name: Wei
citation:
  ama: Miao M, Kummita S, Bodden E, Wei S. Program Feature-Based Benchmarking for
    Fuzz Testing. <i>Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering</i>. 2025;2(ISSTA):527-549.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3728899">10.1145/3728899</a>
  apa: Miao, M., Kummita, S., Bodden, E., &#38; Wei, S. (2025). Program Feature-Based
    Benchmarking for Fuzz Testing. <i>Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering</i>,
    <i>2</i>(ISSTA), 527–549. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3728899">https://doi.org/10.1145/3728899</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Miao_Kummita_Bodden_Wei_2025, title={Program Feature-Based Benchmarking
    for Fuzz Testing}, volume={2}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3728899">10.1145/3728899</a>},
    number={ISSTA}, journal={Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering}, publisher={Association
    for Computing Machinery (ACM)}, author={Miao, Miao and Kummita, Sriteja and Bodden,
    Eric and Wei, Shiyi}, year={2025}, pages={527–549} }'
  chicago: 'Miao, Miao, Sriteja Kummita, Eric Bodden, and Shiyi Wei. “Program Feature-Based
    Benchmarking for Fuzz Testing.” <i>Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering</i>
    2, no. ISSTA (2025): 527–49. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3728899">https://doi.org/10.1145/3728899</a>.'
  ieee: 'M. Miao, S. Kummita, E. Bodden, and S. Wei, “Program Feature-Based Benchmarking
    for Fuzz Testing,” <i>Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering</i>, vol.
    2, no. ISSTA, pp. 527–549, 2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3728899">10.1145/3728899</a>.'
  mla: Miao, Miao, et al. “Program Feature-Based Benchmarking for Fuzz Testing.” <i>Proceedings
    of the ACM on Software Engineering</i>, vol. 2, no. ISSTA, Association for Computing
    Machinery (ACM), 2025, pp. 527–49, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3728899">10.1145/3728899</a>.
  short: M. Miao, S. Kummita, E. Bodden, S. Wei, Proceedings of the ACM on Software
    Engineering 2 (2025) 527–549.
date_created: 2025-10-08T08:29:39Z
date_updated: 2025-10-08T08:32:57Z
department:
- _id: '76'
- _id: '662'
doi: 10.1145/3728899
intvolume: '         2'
issue: ISSTA
language:
- iso: eng
page: 527-549
publication: Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2994-970X
publication_status: published
publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
status: public
title: Program Feature-Based Benchmarking for Fuzz Testing
type: journal_article
user_id: '15249'
volume: 2
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '61936'
author:
- first_name: Kadiray
  full_name: Karakaya, Kadiray
  last_name: Karakaya
- first_name: Palaniappan
  full_name: Muthuraman, Palaniappan
  last_name: Muthuraman
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  last_name: Bodden
citation:
  ama: 'Karakaya K, Muthuraman P, Bodden E. Pick Your Call Graphs Well: On Scaling
    IFDS-Based Data-Flow Analyses. In: <i>Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN International
    Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis</i>. ACM; 2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3735544.3735587">10.1145/3735544.3735587</a>'
  apa: 'Karakaya, K., Muthuraman, P., &#38; Bodden, E. (2025). Pick Your Call Graphs
    Well: On Scaling IFDS-Based Data-Flow Analyses. <i>Proceedings of the 14th ACM
    SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis</i>.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3735544.3735587">https://doi.org/10.1145/3735544.3735587</a>'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Karakaya_Muthuraman_Bodden_2025, title={Pick Your Call Graphs
    Well: On Scaling IFDS-Based Data-Flow Analyses}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3735544.3735587">10.1145/3735544.3735587</a>},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State
    Of the Art in Program Analysis}, publisher={ACM}, author={Karakaya, Kadiray and
    Muthuraman, Palaniappan and Bodden, Eric}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: 'Karakaya, Kadiray, Palaniappan Muthuraman, and Eric Bodden. “Pick Your
    Call Graphs Well: On Scaling IFDS-Based Data-Flow Analyses.” In <i>Proceedings
    of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program
    Analysis</i>. ACM, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3735544.3735587">https://doi.org/10.1145/3735544.3735587</a>.'
  ieee: 'K. Karakaya, P. Muthuraman, and E. Bodden, “Pick Your Call Graphs Well: On
    Scaling IFDS-Based Data-Flow Analyses,” 2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3735544.3735587">10.1145/3735544.3735587</a>.'
  mla: 'Karakaya, Kadiray, et al. “Pick Your Call Graphs Well: On Scaling IFDS-Based
    Data-Flow Analyses.” <i>Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop
    on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis</i>, ACM, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3735544.3735587">10.1145/3735544.3735587</a>.'
  short: 'K. Karakaya, P. Muthuraman, E. Bodden, in: Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN
    International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis, ACM, 2025.'
date_created: 2025-10-23T12:46:21Z
date_updated: 2025-10-23T12:47:32Z
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.1145/3735544.3735587
publication: Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State
  Of the Art in Program Analysis
publication_status: published
publisher: ACM
status: public
title: 'Pick Your Call Graphs Well: On Scaling IFDS-Based Data-Flow Analyses'
type: conference
user_id: '70410'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '62973'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being explored for their potential
    in software engineering, particularly in static analysis tasks. In this study,
    we investigate the potential of current LLMs to enhance call-graph analysis and
    type inference for Python and JavaScript programs. We empirically evaluated 24
    LLMs, including OpenAI's GPT series and open-source models like LLaMA and Mistral,
    using existing and newly developed benchmarks. Specifically, we enhanced TypeEvalPy,
    a micro-benchmarking framework for type inference in Python, with auto-generation
    capabilities, expanding its scope from 860 to 77,268 type annotations for Python.
    Additionally, we introduced SWARM-CG and SWARM-JS, comprehensive benchmarking
    suites for evaluating call-graph construction tools across multiple programming
    languages.\r\n Our findings reveal a contrasting performance of LLMs in static
    analysis tasks. For call-graph generation, traditional static analysis tools such
    as PyCG for Python and Jelly for JavaScript consistently outperform LLMs. While
    advanced models like mistral-large-it-2407-123b and gpt-4o show promise, they
    still struggle with completeness and soundness in call-graph analysis across both
    languages. In contrast, LLMs demonstrate a clear advantage in type inference for
    Python, surpassing traditional tools like HeaderGen and hybrid approaches such
    as HiTyper. These results suggest that, while LLMs hold promise in type inference,
    their limitations in call-graph analysis highlight the need for further research.
    Our study provides a foundation for integrating LLMs into static analysis workflows,
    offering insights into their strengths and current limitations."
author:
- first_name: Ashwin Prasad
  full_name: Shivarpatna Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad
  id: '66637'
  last_name: Shivarpatna Venkatesh
- first_name: Rose
  full_name: Sunil, Rose
  id: '97670'
  last_name: Sunil
- first_name: Samkutty
  full_name: Sabu, Samkutty
  last_name: Sabu
- first_name: Amir M.
  full_name: Mir, Amir M.
  last_name: Mir
- first_name: Sofia
  full_name: Reis, Sofia
  last_name: Reis
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: Shivarpatna Venkatesh AP, Sunil R, Sabu S, Mir AM, Reis S, Bodden E. An Empirical
    Study of Large Language Models for Type and Call Graph Analysis in Python and
    JavaScript. <i>Empirical Software Engineering</i>. 2025;30(6). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603">10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603</a>
  apa: Shivarpatna Venkatesh, A. P., Sunil, R., Sabu, S., Mir, A. M., Reis, S., &#38;
    Bodden, E. (2025). An Empirical Study of Large Language Models for Type and Call
    Graph Analysis in Python and JavaScript. <i>Empirical Software Engineering</i>,
    <i>30</i>(6). <a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603">https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Shivarpatna Venkatesh_Sunil_Sabu_Mir_Reis_Bodden_2025, title={An
    Empirical Study of Large Language Models for Type and Call Graph Analysis in Python
    and JavaScript}, volume={30}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603">10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603</a>},
    number={6}, journal={Empirical Software Engineering}, publisher={Springer}, author={Shivarpatna
    Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad and Sunil, Rose and Sabu, Samkutty and Mir, Amir M. and
    Reis, Sofia and Bodden, Eric}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: Shivarpatna Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad, Rose Sunil, Samkutty Sabu, Amir M.
    Mir, Sofia Reis, and Eric Bodden. “An Empirical Study of Large Language Models
    for Type and Call Graph Analysis in Python and JavaScript.” <i>Empirical Software
    Engineering</i> 30, no. 6 (2025). <a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603">https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603</a>.
  ieee: 'A. P. Shivarpatna Venkatesh, R. Sunil, S. Sabu, A. M. Mir, S. Reis, and E.
    Bodden, “An Empirical Study of Large Language Models for Type and Call Graph Analysis
    in Python and JavaScript,” <i>Empirical Software Engineering</i>, vol. 30, no.
    6, 2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603">10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603</a>.'
  mla: Shivarpatna Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad, et al. “An Empirical Study of Large Language
    Models for Type and Call Graph Analysis in Python and JavaScript.” <i>Empirical
    Software Engineering</i>, vol. 30, no. 6, Springer, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603">10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603</a>.
  short: A.P. Shivarpatna Venkatesh, R. Sunil, S. Sabu, A.M. Mir, S. Reis, E. Bodden,
    Empirical Software Engineering 30 (2025).
date_created: 2025-12-08T13:20:30Z
date_updated: 2025-12-08T13:25:49Z
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.00603
intvolume: '        30'
issue: '6'
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Empirical Software Engineering
publisher: Springer
status: public
title: An Empirical Study of Large Language Models for Type and Call Graph Analysis
  in Python and JavaScript
type: journal_article
user_id: '15249'
volume: 30
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '61108'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "<jats:p>Greybox fuzzing is used extensively in research and practice. There
    are umpteen publications that improve greybox fuzzing. However, to what extent
    do these improvements affect the internal components or internals of a given fuzzer
    is not yet understood as the improvements are mostly evaluated using code coverage
    and bug finding capability. Such an evaluation is insufficient to understand the
    effect of improvements on the fuzzer internals. Some of the literature visualizes
    the outcomes of fuzzing to enhance the understanding. However, they only focus
    on high-level information and no previous research on visualization has been dedicated
    to understanding fuzzing internals.</jats:p>\r\n          <jats:p>To close this
    gap, we propose the first step towards development of a fuzzing-specific visualization
    framework: a taxonomy of visualization analysis tasks that fuzzing experts desire
    to help them understand the fuzzing internals. Our approach involves conducting
    interviews with fuzzing experts and using qualitative data analysis to systematically
    extract the task taxonomy from the interview data. We also evaluate the support
    of existing fuzzing visualization tools through the lens of our taxonomy. In our
    study, we have conducted 33 interviews with fuzzing practitioners and extracted
    a taxonomy of 120 visualization analysis tasks. Our evaluation shows that the
    existing fuzzing visualization tools only provide aids to support 10 of them.</jats:p>"
article_number: '3718346'
author:
- first_name: Sriteja
  full_name: Kummita, Sriteja
  id: '72582'
  last_name: Kummita
- first_name: Miao
  full_name: Miao, Miao
  last_name: Miao
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
- first_name: Shiyi
  full_name: Wei, Shiyi
  last_name: Wei
citation:
  ama: Kummita S, Miao M, Bodden E, Wei S. Visualization Task Taxonomy to Understand
    the Fuzzing Internals. <i>ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology</i>.
    Published online 2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3718346">10.1145/3718346</a>
  apa: Kummita, S., Miao, M., Bodden, E., &#38; Wei, S. (2025). Visualization Task
    Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing Internals. <i>ACM Transactions on Software
    Engineering and Methodology</i>, Article 3718346. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3718346">https://doi.org/10.1145/3718346</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Kummita_Miao_Bodden_Wei_2025, title={Visualization Task Taxonomy
    to Understand the Fuzzing Internals}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3718346">10.1145/3718346</a>},
    number={3718346}, journal={ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology},
    publisher={Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}, author={Kummita, Sriteja
    and Miao, Miao and Bodden, Eric and Wei, Shiyi}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: Kummita, Sriteja, Miao Miao, Eric Bodden, and Shiyi Wei. “Visualization
    Task Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing Internals.” <i>ACM Transactions on Software
    Engineering and Methodology</i>, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3718346">https://doi.org/10.1145/3718346</a>.
  ieee: 'S. Kummita, M. Miao, E. Bodden, and S. Wei, “Visualization Task Taxonomy
    to Understand the Fuzzing Internals,” <i>ACM Transactions on Software Engineering
    and Methodology</i>, Art. no. 3718346, 2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3718346">10.1145/3718346</a>.'
  mla: Kummita, Sriteja, et al. “Visualization Task Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing
    Internals.” <i>ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology</i>, 3718346,
    Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3718346">10.1145/3718346</a>.
  short: S. Kummita, M. Miao, E. Bodden, S. Wei, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering
    and Methodology (2025).
date_created: 2025-09-01T10:15:26Z
date_updated: 2025-09-01T10:16:03Z
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.1145/3718346
language:
- iso: eng
publication: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 1049-331X
  - 1557-7392
publication_status: published
publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
status: public
title: Visualization Task Taxonomy to Understand the Fuzzing Internals
type: journal_article
user_id: '15249'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '65018'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Android applications collecting data from users must protect it according
    to the current legal frameworks. Such data protection has become even more important
    since in 2018 the European Union rolled out the General Data Protection Regulation
    (GDPR). Since app developers are not legal experts, they find it difficult to
    integrate privacy-aware practices into source code development. Despite these
    legal obligations, developers have limited tool support to reason about data protection
    throughout their app development process.\r\n  This paper explores the use of
    static program slicing and software visualization to analyze privacy-relevant
    data flows in Android apps. We introduce SliceViz, a web tool that analyzes an
    Android app by slicing all privacy-relevant data sources detected in the source
    code on the back-end. It then helps developers by visualizing these privacy-relevant
    program slices.\r\n  We conducted a user study with 12 participants demonstrating
    that SliceViz effectively aids developers in identifying privacy-relevant properties
    in Android apps.\r\n  Our findings indicate that program slicing can be employed
    to identify and reason about privacy-relevant data flows in Android applications.
    With further usability improvements, developers can be better equipped to handle
    privacy-sensitive information."
author:
- first_name: Mugdha
  full_name: Khedkar, Mugdha
  id: '88024'
  last_name: Khedkar
- first_name: Michael
  full_name: Schlichtig, Michael
  id: '32312'
  last_name: Schlichtig
  orcid: 0000-0001-6600-6171
- first_name: Santhosh
  full_name: Mohan, Santhosh
  last_name: Mohan
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: Khedkar M, Schlichtig M, Mohan S, Bodden E. Visualizing Privacy-Relevant Data
    Flows in Android Applications. <i>arXiv:250316640</i>. Published online 2025.
  apa: Khedkar, M., Schlichtig, M., Mohan, S., &#38; Bodden, E. (2025). Visualizing
    Privacy-Relevant Data Flows in Android Applications. In <i>arXiv:2503.16640</i>.
  bibtex: '@article{Khedkar_Schlichtig_Mohan_Bodden_2025, title={Visualizing Privacy-Relevant
    Data Flows in Android Applications}, journal={arXiv:2503.16640}, author={Khedkar,
    Mugdha and Schlichtig, Michael and Mohan, Santhosh and Bodden, Eric}, year={2025}
    }'
  chicago: Khedkar, Mugdha, Michael Schlichtig, Santhosh Mohan, and Eric Bodden. “Visualizing
    Privacy-Relevant Data Flows in Android Applications.” <i>ArXiv:2503.16640</i>,
    2025.
  ieee: M. Khedkar, M. Schlichtig, S. Mohan, and E. Bodden, “Visualizing Privacy-Relevant
    Data Flows in Android Applications,” <i>arXiv:2503.16640</i>. 2025.
  mla: Khedkar, Mugdha, et al. “Visualizing Privacy-Relevant Data Flows in Android
    Applications.” <i>ArXiv:2503.16640</i>, 2025.
  short: M. Khedkar, M. Schlichtig, S. Mohan, E. Bodden, ArXiv:2503.16640 (2025).
date_created: 2026-03-16T17:39:12Z
date_updated: 2026-03-16T17:40:56Z
department:
- _id: '76'
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2503.16640'
language:
- iso: eng
publication: arXiv:2503.16640
status: public
title: Visualizing Privacy-Relevant Data Flows in Android Applications
type: preprint
user_id: '32312'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '52663'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Context\r\nStatic analyses are well-established to aid in understanding bugs
    or vulnerabilities during the development process or in large-scale studies. A
    low false-positive rate is essential for the adaption in practice and for precise
    results of empirical studies. Unfortunately, static analyses tend to report where
    a vulnerability manifests rather than the fix location. This can cause presumed
    false positives or imprecise results.\r\nMethod\r\nTo address this problem, we
    designed an adaption of an existing static analysis algorithm that can distinguish
    between a manifestation and fix location, and reports error chains. An error chain
    represents at least two interconnected errors that occur successively, thus building
    the connection between the fix and manifestation location. We used our tool CogniCryptSUBS
    for a case study on 471 GitHub repositories, a performance benchmark to compare
    different analysis configurations, and conducted an expert interview.\r\nResult\r\nWe
    found that 50 % of the projects with a report had at least one error chain. Our
    runtime benchmark demonstrated that our improvement caused only a minimal runtime
    overhead of less than 4 %. The results of our expert interview indicate that with
    our adapted version participants require fewer executions of the analysis.\r\nConclusion\r\nOur
    results indicate that error chains occur frequently in real-world projects, and
    ignoring them can lead to imprecise evaluation results. The runtime benchmark
    indicates that our tool is a feasible and efficient solution for detecting error
    chains in real-world projects. Further, our results gave a hint that the usability
    of static analyses may benefit from supporting error chains."
author:
- first_name: Anna-Katharina
  full_name: Wickert, Anna-Katharina
  last_name: Wickert
- first_name: Michael
  full_name: Schlichtig, Michael
  id: '32312'
  last_name: Schlichtig
  orcid: 0000-0001-6600-6171
- first_name: Marvin
  full_name: Vogel, Marvin
  last_name: Vogel
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Winter, Lukas
  last_name: Winter
- first_name: Mira
  full_name: Mezini, Mira
  last_name: Mezini
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: Wickert A-K, Schlichtig M, Vogel M, Winter L, Mezini M, Bodden E. <i>Supporting
    Error Chains in Static Analysis for Precise Evaluation Results and Enhanced Usability</i>.;
    2024.
  apa: Wickert, A.-K., Schlichtig, M., Vogel, M., Winter, L., Mezini, M., &#38; Bodden,
    E. (2024). <i>Supporting Error Chains in Static Analysis for Precise Evaluation
    Results and Enhanced Usability</i>.
  bibtex: '@book{Wickert_Schlichtig_Vogel_Winter_Mezini_Bodden_2024, title={Supporting
    Error Chains in Static Analysis for Precise Evaluation Results and Enhanced Usability},
    author={Wickert, Anna-Katharina and Schlichtig, Michael and Vogel, Marvin and
    Winter, Lukas and Mezini, Mira and Bodden, Eric}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: Wickert, Anna-Katharina, Michael Schlichtig, Marvin Vogel, Lukas Winter,
    Mira Mezini, and Eric Bodden. <i>Supporting Error Chains in Static Analysis for
    Precise Evaluation Results and Enhanced Usability</i>, 2024.
  ieee: A.-K. Wickert, M. Schlichtig, M. Vogel, L. Winter, M. Mezini, and E. Bodden,
    <i>Supporting Error Chains in Static Analysis for Precise Evaluation Results and
    Enhanced Usability</i>. 2024.
  mla: Wickert, Anna-Katharina, et al. <i>Supporting Error Chains in Static Analysis
    for Precise Evaluation Results and Enhanced Usability</i>. 2024.
  short: A.-K. Wickert, M. Schlichtig, M. Vogel, L. Winter, M. Mezini, E. Bodden,
    Supporting Error Chains in Static Analysis for Precise Evaluation Results and
    Enhanced Usability, 2024.
date_created: 2024-03-20T09:28:36Z
date_updated: 2024-03-20T09:32:29Z
department:
- _id: '76'
keyword:
- Static analysis
- error chains
- false positive re- duction
- empirical studies
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07808
status: public
title: Supporting Error Chains in Static Analysis for Precise Evaluation Results and
  Enhanced Usability
type: misc
user_id: '32312'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '53938'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Previous work has shown that one can often greatly speed up static analysis
    by computing data flows not for every edge in the program’s control-flow graph
    but instead only along definition-use chains. This yields a so-called sparse static
    analysis. Recent work on SparseDroid has shown that specifically taint analysis
    can be “sparsified” with extraordinary effectiveness because the taint state of
    one variable does not depend on those of others. This allows one to soundly omit
    more flow-function computations than in the general case. In this work, we now
    assess whether this result carries over to the more generic setting of so-called
    Interprocedural Distributive Environment (IDE) problems. Opposed to taint analysis,
    IDE comprises distributive problems with large or even infinitely broad domains,
    such as typestate analysis or linear constant propagation. Specifically, this
    paper presents Sparse IDE, a framework that realizes sparsification for any static
    analysis that fits the IDE framework. We implement Sparse IDE in SparseHeros,
    as an extension to the popular Heros IDE solver, and evaluate its performance
    on real-world Java libraries by comparing it to the baseline IDE algorithm. To
    this end, we design, implement and evaluate a linear constant propagation analysis
    client on top of SparseHeros. Our experiments show that, although IDE analyses
    can only be sparsified with respect to symbols and not (numeric) values, Sparse
    IDE can nonetheless yield significantly lower runtimes and often also memory consumptions
    compared to the original IDE.
author:
- first_name: Kadiray
  full_name: Karakaya, Kadiray
  id: '70410'
  last_name: Karakaya
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9266-2084
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: 'Karakaya K, Bodden E. Symbol-Specific Sparsification of Interprocedural Distributive
    Environment Problems. In: <i>Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference
    on Software Engineering</i>. ACM; 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639092">10.1145/3597503.3639092</a>'
  apa: Karakaya, K., &#38; Bodden, E. (2024). Symbol-Specific Sparsification of Interprocedural
    Distributive Environment Problems. <i>Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International
    Conference on Software Engineering</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639092">https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639092</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Karakaya_Bodden_2024, title={Symbol-Specific Sparsification
    of Interprocedural Distributive Environment Problems}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639092">10.1145/3597503.3639092</a>},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software
    Engineering}, publisher={ACM}, author={Karakaya, Kadiray and Bodden, Eric}, year={2024}
    }'
  chicago: Karakaya, Kadiray, and Eric Bodden. “Symbol-Specific Sparsification of
    Interprocedural Distributive Environment Problems.” In <i>Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM
    46th International Conference on Software Engineering</i>. ACM, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639092">https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639092</a>.
  ieee: 'K. Karakaya and E. Bodden, “Symbol-Specific Sparsification of Interprocedural
    Distributive Environment Problems,” 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639092">10.1145/3597503.3639092</a>.'
  mla: Karakaya, Kadiray, and Eric Bodden. “Symbol-Specific Sparsification of Interprocedural
    Distributive Environment Problems.” <i>Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International
    Conference on Software Engineering</i>, ACM, 2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639092">10.1145/3597503.3639092</a>.
  short: 'K. Karakaya, E. Bodden, in: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International
    Conference on Software Engineering, ACM, 2024.'
date_created: 2024-05-06T11:20:21Z
date_updated: 2024-05-06T11:23:06Z
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.1145/3597503.3639092
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software
  Engineering
publication_status: published
publisher: ACM
status: public
title: Symbol-Specific Sparsification of Interprocedural Distributive Environment
  Problems
type: conference
user_id: '15249'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '53958'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "To detect security vulnerabilities, static analysis tools need to be configured
    with security-relevant methods. Current approaches can automatically identify
    such methods using binary relevance machine learning approaches. However, they
    ignore dependencies among security-relevant methods, over-generalize and perform
    poorly in practice. Additionally, users have to nevertheless manually configure
    static analysis tools using the detected methods. Based on feedback from users
    and our observations, the excessive manual steps can often be tedious, error-prone
    and counter-intuitive.\r\n In this paper, we present Dev-Assist, an IntelliJ IDEA
    plugin that detects security-relevant methods using a multi-label machine learning
    approach that considers dependencies among labels. The plugin can automatically
    generate configurations for static analysis tools, run the static analysis, and
    show the results in IntelliJ IDEA. Our experiments reveal that Dev-Assist's machine
    learning approach has a higher F1-Measure than related approaches. Moreover, the
    plugin reduces and simplifies the manual effort required when configuring and
    using static analysis tools."
author:
- first_name: Oshando
  full_name: Johnson, Oshando
  id: '66583'
  last_name: Johnson
- first_name: Goran
  full_name: Piskachev, Goran
  id: '41936'
  last_name: Piskachev
  orcid: 0000-0003-4424-5838
- first_name: Ranjith
  full_name: Krishnamurthy, Ranjith
  id: '78060'
  last_name: Krishnamurthy
  orcid: 0000-0002-0906-5463
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: 'Johnson O, Piskachev G, Krishnamurthy R, Bodden E. Detecting Security-Relevant
    Methods using Multi-label Machine Learning. In: <i>Proceedings of the 46th International
    Conference on Software Engineering, IDE Workshop</i>. ; 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501">10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501</a>'
  apa: Johnson, O., Piskachev, G., Krishnamurthy, R., &#38; Bodden, E. (2024). Detecting
    Security-Relevant Methods using Multi-label Machine Learning. <i>Proceedings of
    the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, IDE Workshop</i>. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501">https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Johnson_Piskachev_Krishnamurthy_Bodden_2024, title={Detecting
    Security-Relevant Methods using Multi-label Machine Learning}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501">10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501</a>},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering,
    IDE Workshop}, author={Johnson, Oshando and Piskachev, Goran and Krishnamurthy,
    Ranjith and Bodden, Eric}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: Johnson, Oshando, Goran Piskachev, Ranjith Krishnamurthy, and Eric Bodden.
    “Detecting Security-Relevant Methods Using Multi-Label Machine Learning.” In <i>Proceedings
    of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, IDE Workshop</i>,
    2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501">https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501</a>.
  ieee: 'O. Johnson, G. Piskachev, R. Krishnamurthy, and E. Bodden, “Detecting Security-Relevant
    Methods using Multi-label Machine Learning,” 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501">10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501</a>.'
  mla: Johnson, Oshando, et al. “Detecting Security-Relevant Methods Using Multi-Label
    Machine Learning.” <i>Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software
    Engineering, IDE Workshop</i>, 2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501">10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501</a>.
  short: 'O. Johnson, G. Piskachev, R. Krishnamurthy, E. Bodden, in: Proceedings of
    the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, IDE Workshop, 2024.'
date_created: 2024-05-06T11:43:19Z
date_updated: 2024-05-06T11:47:14Z
department:
- _id: '76'
- _id: '662'
doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2403.07501
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering,
  IDE Workshop
status: public
title: Detecting Security-Relevant Methods using Multi-label Machine Learning
type: conference
user_id: '15249'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '53959'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: In light of the growing interest in type inference research for Python, both
    researchers and practitioners require a standardized process to assess the performance
    of various type inference techniques. This paper introduces TypeEvalPy, a comprehensive
    micro-benchmarking framework for evaluating type inference tools. TypeEvalPy contains
    154 code snippets with 845 type annotations across 18 categories that target various
    Python features. The framework manages the execution of containerized tools, transforms
    inferred types into a standardized format, and produces meaningful metrics for
    assessment. Through our analysis, we compare the performance of six type inference
    tools, highlighting their strengths and limitations. Our findings provide a foundation
    for further research and optimization in the domain of Python type inference.
author:
- first_name: Ashwin Prasad
  full_name: Shivarpatna Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad
  id: '66637'
  last_name: Shivarpatna Venkatesh
- first_name: Samkutty
  full_name: Sabu, Samkutty
  last_name: Sabu
- first_name: Jiawei
  full_name: Wang, Jiawei
  last_name: Wang
- first_name: Amir M.
  full_name: Mir, Amir M.
  last_name: Mir
- first_name: Li
  full_name: Li, Li
  last_name: Li
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: 'Shivarpatna Venkatesh AP, Sabu S, Wang J, Mir AM, Li L, Bodden E. TypeEvalPy:
    A Micro-benchmarking Framework for Python Type Inference  Tools. In: <i>Proceedings
    of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion
    Proceedings</i>. ICSE-Companion 24. Association for Computing Machinery; 2024:49-53.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3639478.3640033">10.1145/3639478.3640033</a>'
  apa: 'Shivarpatna Venkatesh, A. P., Sabu, S., Wang, J., Mir, A. M., Li, L., &#38;
    Bodden, E. (2024). TypeEvalPy: A Micro-benchmarking Framework for Python Type
    Inference  Tools. <i>Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference
    on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings</i>, 49–53. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3639478.3640033">https://doi.org/10.1145/3639478.3640033</a>'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Shivarpatna Venkatesh_Sabu_Wang_Mir_Li_Bodden_2024, place={New
    York, NY, USA}, series={ICSE-Companion 24}, title={TypeEvalPy: A Micro-benchmarking
    Framework for Python Type Inference  Tools}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3639478.3640033">10.1145/3639478.3640033</a>},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software
    Engineering: Companion Proceedings}, publisher={Association for Computing Machinery},
    author={Shivarpatna Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad and Sabu, Samkutty and Wang, Jiawei
    and Mir, Amir M. and Li, Li and Bodden, Eric}, year={2024}, pages={49–53}, collection={ICSE-Companion
    24} }'
  chicago: 'Shivarpatna Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad, Samkutty Sabu, Jiawei Wang, Amir
    M. Mir, Li Li, and Eric Bodden. “TypeEvalPy: A Micro-Benchmarking Framework for
    Python Type Inference  Tools.” In <i>Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International
    Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings</i>, 49–53. ICSE-Companion
    24. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3639478.3640033">https://doi.org/10.1145/3639478.3640033</a>.'
  ieee: 'A. P. Shivarpatna Venkatesh, S. Sabu, J. Wang, A. M. Mir, L. Li, and E. Bodden,
    “TypeEvalPy: A Micro-benchmarking Framework for Python Type Inference  Tools,”
    in <i>Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software
    Engineering: Companion Proceedings</i>, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024, pp. 49–53, doi:
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3639478.3640033">10.1145/3639478.3640033</a>.'
  mla: 'Shivarpatna Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad, et al. “TypeEvalPy: A Micro-Benchmarking
    Framework for Python Type Inference  Tools.” <i>Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM
    46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings</i>,
    Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, pp. 49–53, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3639478.3640033">10.1145/3639478.3640033</a>.'
  short: 'A.P. Shivarpatna Venkatesh, S. Sabu, J. Wang, A.M. Mir, L. Li, E. Bodden,
    in: Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software
    Engineering: Companion Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, New York,
    NY, USA, 2024, pp. 49–53.'
conference:
  location: Lisbon, Portugal
date_created: 2024-05-06T11:49:22Z
date_updated: 2024-08-05T07:49:33Z
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.1145/3639478.3640033
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2312.16882'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 49-53
place: New York, NY, USA
publication: 'Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software
  Engineering: Companion Proceedings'
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9798400705021'
publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
series_title: ICSE-Companion 24
status: public
title: 'TypeEvalPy: A Micro-benchmarking Framework for Python Type Inference  Tools'
type: conference
user_id: '15249'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '55516'
author:
- first_name: Ashwin Prasad
  full_name: Shivarpatna Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad
  id: '66637'
  last_name: Shivarpatna Venkatesh
- first_name: Samkutty
  full_name: Sabu, Samkutty
  last_name: Sabu
- first_name: Amir M.
  full_name: Mir, Amir M.
  last_name: Mir
- first_name: Sofia
  full_name: Reis, Sofia
  last_name: Reis
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: 'Shivarpatna Venkatesh AP, Sabu S, Mir AM, Reis S, Bodden E. The Emergence
    of Large Language Models in Static Analysis: A First Look through Micro-Benchmarks.
    In: <i>Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM First International Conference on AI Foundation
    Models and Software Engineering</i>. ACM; 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3650105.3652288">10.1145/3650105.3652288</a>'
  apa: 'Shivarpatna Venkatesh, A. P., Sabu, S., Mir, A. M., Reis, S., &#38; Bodden,
    E. (2024). The Emergence of Large Language Models in Static Analysis: A First
    Look through Micro-Benchmarks. <i>Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM First International
    Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3650105.3652288">https://doi.org/10.1145/3650105.3652288</a>'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Shivarpatna Venkatesh_Sabu_Mir_Reis_Bodden_2024, title={The
    Emergence of Large Language Models in Static Analysis: A First Look through Micro-Benchmarks},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3650105.3652288">10.1145/3650105.3652288</a>},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM First International Conference on
    AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering}, publisher={ACM}, author={Shivarpatna
    Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad and Sabu, Samkutty and Mir, Amir M. and Reis, Sofia and
    Bodden, Eric}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: 'Shivarpatna Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad, Samkutty Sabu, Amir M. Mir, Sofia
    Reis, and Eric Bodden. “The Emergence of Large Language Models in Static Analysis:
    A First Look through Micro-Benchmarks.” In <i>Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM
    First International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering</i>.
    ACM, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3650105.3652288">https://doi.org/10.1145/3650105.3652288</a>.'
  ieee: 'A. P. Shivarpatna Venkatesh, S. Sabu, A. M. Mir, S. Reis, and E. Bodden,
    “The Emergence of Large Language Models in Static Analysis: A First Look through
    Micro-Benchmarks,” 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3650105.3652288">10.1145/3650105.3652288</a>.'
  mla: 'Shivarpatna Venkatesh, Ashwin Prasad, et al. “The Emergence of Large Language
    Models in Static Analysis: A First Look through Micro-Benchmarks.” <i>Proceedings
    of the 2024 IEEE/ACM First International Conference on AI Foundation Models and
    Software Engineering</i>, ACM, 2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3650105.3652288">10.1145/3650105.3652288</a>.'
  short: 'A.P. Shivarpatna Venkatesh, S. Sabu, A.M. Mir, S. Reis, E. Bodden, in: Proceedings
    of the 2024 IEEE/ACM First International Conference on AI Foundation Models and
    Software Engineering, ACM, 2024.'
date_created: 2024-08-05T09:12:59Z
date_updated: 2024-08-05T09:14:11Z
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.1145/3650105.3652288
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM First International Conference on AI
  Foundation Models and Software Engineering
publication_status: published
publisher: ACM
status: public
title: 'The Emergence of Large Language Models in Static Analysis: A First Look through
  Micro-Benchmarks'
type: conference
user_id: '15249'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '59411'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: <jats:p>As our lives, our businesses, and indeed our world economy become
    increasingly reliant on the secure operation of many interconnected software systems,
    the software engineering research community is faced with unprecedented research
    challenges, but also with exciting new opportunities. In this roadmap paper, we
    outline our vision of Software Security Analysis for the systems of the future.
    Given the recent advances in generative AI, we need new methods to assess and
    maximize the security of code co-written by machines. As our systems become increasingly
    heterogeneous, we need practical approaches that work even if some functions are
    automatically generated, e.g., by deep neural networks. As software systems depend
    evermore on the software supply chain, we need tools that scale to an entire ecosystem.
    What kind of vulnerabilities exist in future systems and how do we detect them?
    When all the shallow bugs are found, how do we discover vulnerabilities hidden
    deeply in the system? Assuming we cannot find all security flaws, how can we nevertheless
    protect our system? To answer these questions, we start our roadmap with a survey
    of recent advances in software security, then discuss open challenges and opportunities,
    and conclude with a long-term perspective for the field.</jats:p>
author:
- first_name: Marcel
  full_name: Böhme, Marcel
  last_name: Böhme
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
- first_name: Tevfik
  full_name: Bultan, Tevfik
  last_name: Bultan
- first_name: Cristian
  full_name: Cadar, Cristian
  last_name: Cadar
- first_name: Yang
  full_name: Liu, Yang
  last_name: Liu
- first_name: Giuseppe
  full_name: Scanniello, Giuseppe
  last_name: Scanniello
citation:
  ama: 'Böhme M, Bodden E, Bultan T, Cadar C, Liu Y, Scanniello G. Software Security
    Analysis in 2030 and Beyond: A Research Roadmap. <i>ACM Transactions on Software
    Engineering and Methodology</i>. Published online 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3708533">10.1145/3708533</a>'
  apa: 'Böhme, M., Bodden, E., Bultan, T., Cadar, C., Liu, Y., &#38; Scanniello, G.
    (2024). Software Security Analysis in 2030 and Beyond: A Research Roadmap. <i>ACM
    Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3708533">https://doi.org/10.1145/3708533</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Böhme_Bodden_Bultan_Cadar_Liu_Scanniello_2024, title={Software
    Security Analysis in 2030 and Beyond: A Research Roadmap}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3708533">10.1145/3708533</a>},
    journal={ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology}, publisher={Association
    for Computing Machinery (ACM)}, author={Böhme, Marcel and Bodden, Eric and Bultan,
    Tevfik and Cadar, Cristian and Liu, Yang and Scanniello, Giuseppe}, year={2024}
    }'
  chicago: 'Böhme, Marcel, Eric Bodden, Tevfik Bultan, Cristian Cadar, Yang Liu, and
    Giuseppe Scanniello. “Software Security Analysis in 2030 and Beyond: A Research
    Roadmap.” <i>ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology</i>, 2024.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3708533">https://doi.org/10.1145/3708533</a>.'
  ieee: 'M. Böhme, E. Bodden, T. Bultan, C. Cadar, Y. Liu, and G. Scanniello, “Software
    Security Analysis in 2030 and Beyond: A Research Roadmap,” <i>ACM Transactions
    on Software Engineering and Methodology</i>, 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3708533">10.1145/3708533</a>.'
  mla: 'Böhme, Marcel, et al. “Software Security Analysis in 2030 and Beyond: A Research
    Roadmap.” <i>ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology</i>, Association
    for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3708533">10.1145/3708533</a>.'
  short: M. Böhme, E. Bodden, T. Bultan, C. Cadar, Y. Liu, G. Scanniello, ACM Transactions
    on Software Engineering and Methodology (2024).
date_created: 2025-04-07T10:04:48Z
date_updated: 2025-04-07T10:05:15Z
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.1145/3708533
language:
- iso: eng
publication: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 1049-331X
  - 1557-7392
publication_status: published
publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
status: public
title: 'Software Security Analysis in 2030 and Beyond: A Research Roadmap'
type: journal_article
user_id: '15249'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '52235'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Android applications collecting data from users must protect it according
    to the current legal frameworks. Such data protection has become even more important
    since the European Union rolled out the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
    Since app developers are not legal experts, they find it difficult to write privacy-aware
    source code. Moreover, they have limited tool support to reason about data protection
    throughout their app development process.\r\nThis paper motivates the need for
    a static analysis approach to diagnose and explain data protection in Android
    apps. The analysis will recognize personal data sources in the source code, and
    aims to further examine the data flow originating from these sources. App developers
    can then address key questions about data manipulation, derived data, and the
    presence of technical measures. Despite challenges, we explore to what extent
    one can realize this analysis through static taint analysis, a common method for
    identifying security vulnerabilities. This is a first step towards designing a
    tool-based approach that aids app developers and assessors in ensuring data protection
    in Android apps, based on automated static program analysis. "
author:
- first_name: Mugdha
  full_name: Khedkar, Mugdha
  id: '88024'
  last_name: Khedkar
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: 'Khedkar M, Bodden E. Toward an Android Static Analysis Approach for Data Protection.
    In: <i>Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference on Mobile Software
    Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft ’24). Association for Computing Machinery,
    New York, NY, USA, 65–68.</i> ; 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3647632.3651389">10.1145/3647632.3651389</a>'
  apa: Khedkar, M., &#38; Bodden, E. (2024). Toward an Android Static Analysis Approach
    for Data Protection. <i>Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference
    on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft ’24). Association for Computing
    Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 65–68.</i> 11th International Conference on Mobile
    Software Engineering and Systems 2024, Lisbon, Portugal. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3647632.3651389">https://doi.org/10.1145/3647632.3651389</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Khedkar_Bodden_2024, title={Toward an Android Static Analysis
    Approach for Data Protection}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3647632.3651389">10.1145/3647632.3651389</a>},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference on Mobile
    Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft ’24). Association for Computing Machinery,
    New York, NY, USA, 65–68.}, author={Khedkar, Mugdha and Bodden, Eric}, year={2024}
    }'
  chicago: Khedkar, Mugdha, and Eric Bodden. “Toward an Android Static Analysis Approach
    for Data Protection.” In <i>Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference
    on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft ’24). Association for Computing
    Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 65–68.</i>, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3647632.3651389">https://doi.org/10.1145/3647632.3651389</a>.
  ieee: 'M. Khedkar and E. Bodden, “Toward an Android Static Analysis Approach for
    Data Protection,” presented at the 11th International Conference on Mobile Software
    Engineering and Systems 2024, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3647632.3651389">10.1145/3647632.3651389</a>.'
  mla: Khedkar, Mugdha, and Eric Bodden. “Toward an Android Static Analysis Approach
    for Data Protection.” <i>Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference
    on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft ’24). Association for Computing
    Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 65–68.</i>, 2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3647632.3651389">10.1145/3647632.3651389</a>.
  short: 'M. Khedkar, E. Bodden, in: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 11th International
    Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft ’24). Association
    for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 65–68., 2024.'
conference:
  end_date: 2024-04-15
  location: Lisbon, Portugal
  name: 11th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems 2024
  start_date: 2024-04-14
date_created: 2024-03-03T14:37:53Z
date_updated: 2026-03-04T08:11:48Z
ddc:
- '006'
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.1145/3647632.3651389
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2402.07889'
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  date_updated: 2024-03-03T14:39:08Z
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keyword:
- static program analysis
- data protection and privacy
- GDPR compliance
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference on Mobile Software
  Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New
  York, NY, USA, 65–68.
status: public
title: Toward an Android Static Analysis Approach for Data Protection
type: conference
user_id: '88024'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '53942'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Since its inception two decades ago,
    <jats:sc>Soot</jats:sc> has become one of the most widely used open-source static
    analysis frameworks. Over time it has been extended with the contributions of
    countless researchers. Yet, at the same time, the requirements for <jats:sc>Soot</jats:sc>
    have changed over the years and become increasingly at odds with some of the major
    design decisions that underlie it. In this work, we thus present <jats:sc>SootUp</jats:sc>,
    a complete reimplementation of <jats:sc>Soot</jats:sc> that seeks to fulfill these
    requirements with a novel design, while at the same time keeping elements that
    <jats:sc>Soot</jats:sc> users have grown accustomed to.</jats:p>
author:
- first_name: Kadiray
  full_name: Karakaya, Kadiray
  id: '70410'
  last_name: Karakaya
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9266-2084
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Schott, Stefan
  id: '54847'
  last_name: Schott
- first_name: Jonas
  full_name: Klauke, Jonas
  id: '40915'
  last_name: Klauke
  orcid: 0000-0001-9160-9636
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
- first_name: Markus
  full_name: Schmidt, Markus
  last_name: Schmidt
- first_name: Linghui
  full_name: Luo, Linghui
  last_name: Luo
- first_name: Dongjie
  full_name: He, Dongjie
  last_name: He
citation:
  ama: 'Karakaya K, Schott S, Klauke J, et al. SootUp: A Redesign of the Soot Static
    Analysis Framework. In: <i>Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis
    of Systems</i>. Springer Nature Switzerland; 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57246-3_13">10.1007/978-3-031-57246-3_13</a>'
  apa: 'Karakaya, K., Schott, S., Klauke, J., Bodden, E., Schmidt, M., Luo, L., &#38;
    He, D. (2024). SootUp: A Redesign of the Soot Static Analysis Framework. In <i>Tools
    and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems</i>. Springer Nature
    Switzerland. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57246-3_13">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57246-3_13</a>'
  bibtex: '@inbook{Karakaya_Schott_Klauke_Bodden_Schmidt_Luo_He_2024, place={Cham},
    title={SootUp: A Redesign of the Soot Static Analysis Framework}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57246-3_13">10.1007/978-3-031-57246-3_13</a>},
    booktitle={Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems},
    publisher={Springer Nature Switzerland}, author={Karakaya, Kadiray and Schott,
    Stefan and Klauke, Jonas and Bodden, Eric and Schmidt, Markus and Luo, Linghui
    and He, Dongjie}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: 'Karakaya, Kadiray, Stefan Schott, Jonas Klauke, Eric Bodden, Markus Schmidt,
    Linghui Luo, and Dongjie He. “SootUp: A Redesign of the Soot Static Analysis Framework.”
    In <i>Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems</i>. Cham:
    Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57246-3_13">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57246-3_13</a>.'
  ieee: 'K. Karakaya <i>et al.</i>, “SootUp: A Redesign of the Soot Static Analysis
    Framework,” in <i>Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems</i>,
    Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.'
  mla: 'Karakaya, Kadiray, et al. “SootUp: A Redesign of the Soot Static Analysis
    Framework.” <i>Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems</i>,
    Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57246-3_13">10.1007/978-3-031-57246-3_13</a>.'
  short: 'K. Karakaya, S. Schott, J. Klauke, E. Bodden, M. Schmidt, L. Luo, D. He,
    in: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Springer
    Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2024.'
date_created: 2024-05-06T11:29:36Z
date_updated: 2025-11-11T14:26:52Z
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-57246-3_13
language:
- iso: eng
place: Cham
project:
- _id: '107'
  name: 'Reaktor: SFB 901 - Automatisierte Risikoanalyse in Bezug auf Open-Source-Abhängigkeiten
    (Hektor) (Transferproject T3)'
- _id: '668'
  name: 'HEKTOR: Automatisierte Risikoanalyse unter Berücksichtigung von Open-Source-Abhängigkeiten'
- _id: '1'
  name: 'SFB 901: On-The-Fly Computing - Individualisierte IT-Dienstleistungen in
    dynamischen Märkten'
- _id: '82'
  name: 'SFB 901; Projektbereich T: Transferprojekte des Sonderforschungsbereichs'
- _id: '107'
  name: 'SFB 901; TP T3: Automatisierte Risikoanalyse in Bezug auf Open-Source-Abhängigkeiten
    (Hektor)'
publication: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9783031572456'
  - '9783031572463'
  issn:
  - 0302-9743
  - 1611-3349
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
status: public
title: 'SootUp: A Redesign of the Soot Static Analysis Framework'
type: book_chapter
user_id: '477'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '57550'
author:
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Schott, Stefan
  id: '54847'
  last_name: Schott
- first_name: Serena Elisa
  full_name: Ponta, Serena Elisa
  last_name: Ponta
- first_name: Wolfram
  full_name: Fischer, Wolfram
  last_name: Fischer
- first_name: Jonas
  full_name: Klauke, Jonas
  id: '40915'
  last_name: Klauke
  orcid: 0000-0001-9160-9636
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: 'Schott S, Ponta SE, Fischer W, Klauke J, Bodden E. Java Bytecode Normalization
    for Code Similarity Analysis. In: <i>38th European Conference on Object-Oriented
    Programming (ECOOP 2024)</i>. ; 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37">10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37</a>'
  apa: Schott, S., Ponta, S. E., Fischer, W., Klauke, J., &#38; Bodden, E. (2024).
    Java Bytecode Normalization for Code Similarity Analysis. <i>38th European Conference
    on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)</i>. 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented
    Programming (ECOOP 2024), Vienna. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37">https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Schott_Ponta_Fischer_Klauke_Bodden_2024, title={Java Bytecode
    Normalization for Code Similarity Analysis}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37">10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37</a>},
    booktitle={38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
    author={Schott, Stefan and Ponta, Serena Elisa and Fischer, Wolfram and Klauke,
    Jonas and Bodden, Eric}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: Schott, Stefan, Serena Elisa Ponta, Wolfram Fischer, Jonas Klauke, and
    Eric Bodden. “Java Bytecode Normalization for Code Similarity Analysis.” In <i>38th
    European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)</i>, 2024. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37">https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37</a>.
  ieee: 'S. Schott, S. E. Ponta, W. Fischer, J. Klauke, and E. Bodden, “Java Bytecode
    Normalization for Code Similarity Analysis,” presented at the 38th European Conference
    on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024), Vienna, 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37">10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37</a>.'
  mla: Schott, Stefan, et al. “Java Bytecode Normalization for Code Similarity Analysis.”
    <i>38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)</i>, 2024,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37">10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37</a>.
  short: 'S. Schott, S.E. Ponta, W. Fischer, J. Klauke, E. Bodden, in: 38th European
    Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024), 2024.'
conference:
  location: Vienna
  name: 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)
date_created: 2024-12-03T08:15:07Z
date_updated: 2025-11-11T14:29:43Z
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.37
language:
- iso: eng
project:
- _id: '668'
  name: 'HEKTOR: Automatisierte Risikoanalyse unter Berücksichtigung von Open-Source-Abhängigkeiten'
- _id: '107'
  name: 'Reaktor: SFB 901 - Automatisierte Risikoanalyse in Bezug auf Open-Source-Abhängigkeiten
    (Hektor) (Transferproject T3)'
- _id: '1'
  name: 'SFB 901: On-The-Fly Computing - Individualisierte IT-Dienstleistungen in
    dynamischen Märkten'
- _id: '82'
  name: 'SFB 901; Projektbereich T: Transferprojekte des Sonderforschungsbereichs'
- _id: '107'
  name: 'SFB 901; TP T3: Automatisierte Risikoanalyse in Bezug auf Open-Source-Abhängigkeiten
    (Hektor)'
publication: 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)
status: public
title: Java Bytecode Normalization for Code Similarity Analysis
type: conference
user_id: '477'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '58716'
author:
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Schott, Stefan
  id: '54847'
  last_name: Schott
- first_name: Wolfram
  full_name: Fischer, Wolfram
  last_name: Fischer
- first_name: Serena Elisa
  full_name: Ponta, Serena Elisa
  last_name: Ponta
- first_name: Jonas
  full_name: Klauke, Jonas
  id: '40915'
  last_name: Klauke
  orcid: 0000-0001-9160-9636
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: 'Schott S, Fischer W, Ponta SE, Klauke J, Bodden E. Compilation of Commit Changes
    Within Java Source Code Repositories. In: <i>2024 IEEE International Conference
    on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)</i>. IEEE; 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038">10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038</a>'
  apa: Schott, S., Fischer, W., Ponta, S. E., Klauke, J., &#38; Bodden, E. (2024).
    Compilation of Commit Changes Within Java Source Code Repositories. <i>2024 IEEE
    International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)</i>. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038">https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Schott_Fischer_Ponta_Klauke_Bodden_2024, title={Compilation
    of Commit Changes Within Java Source Code Repositories}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038">10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038</a>},
    booktitle={2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
    (ICSME)}, publisher={IEEE}, author={Schott, Stefan and Fischer, Wolfram and Ponta,
    Serena Elisa and Klauke, Jonas and Bodden, Eric}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: Schott, Stefan, Wolfram Fischer, Serena Elisa Ponta, Jonas Klauke, and
    Eric Bodden. “Compilation of Commit Changes Within Java Source Code Repositories.”
    In <i>2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
    (ICSME)</i>. IEEE, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038">https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038</a>.
  ieee: 'S. Schott, W. Fischer, S. E. Ponta, J. Klauke, and E. Bodden, “Compilation
    of Commit Changes Within Java Source Code Repositories,” 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038">10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038</a>.'
  mla: Schott, Stefan, et al. “Compilation of Commit Changes Within Java Source Code
    Repositories.” <i>2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and
    Evolution (ICSME)</i>, IEEE, 2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038">10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038</a>.
  short: 'S. Schott, W. Fischer, S.E. Ponta, J. Klauke, E. Bodden, in: 2024 IEEE International
    Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), IEEE, 2024.'
date_created: 2025-02-19T15:47:18Z
date_updated: 2025-11-11T15:01:44Z
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00038
language:
- iso: eng
project:
- _id: '1072'
  name: 'SFB 901; TP T5: Zuverlässige und automatisierte codebasierte Analyse von
    Open-Source-Abhängigkeiten (Reaktor)'
publication: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
  (ICSME)
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
status: public
title: Compilation of Commit Changes Within Java Source Code Repositories
type: conference
user_id: '54847'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '56863'
author:
- first_name: Fabian Benedikt
  full_name: Schiebel, Fabian Benedikt
  id: '55745'
  last_name: Schiebel
  orcid: 0009-0008-6867-9802
- first_name: Florian
  full_name: Sattler, Florian
  last_name: Sattler
- first_name: Philipp Dominik
  full_name: Schubert, Philipp Dominik
  last_name: Schubert
- first_name: Sven
  full_name: Apel, Sven
  last_name: Apel
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: 'Schiebel FB, Sattler F, Schubert PD, Apel S, Bodden E. Scaling Interprocedural
    Static Data-Flow Analysis to Large C/C++ Applications: An Experience Report. In:
    Aldrich J, Salvaneschi G, eds. <i>38th European Conference on Object-Oriented
    Programming (ECOOP 2024)</i>. Vol 313. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
    (LIPIcs). Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2024:36:1–36:28.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36">10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36</a>'
  apa: 'Schiebel, F. B., Sattler, F., Schubert, P. D., Apel, S., &#38; Bodden, E.
    (2024). Scaling Interprocedural Static Data-Flow Analysis to Large C/C++ Applications:
    An Experience Report. In J. Aldrich &#38; G. Salvaneschi (Eds.), <i>38th European
    Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)</i> (Vol. 313, p. 36:1–36:28).
    Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36">https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36</a>'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Schiebel_Sattler_Schubert_Apel_Bodden_2024, place={Dagstuhl,
    Germany}, series={Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
    title={Scaling Interprocedural Static Data-Flow Analysis to Large C/C++ Applications:
    An Experience Report}, volume={313}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36">10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36</a>},
    booktitle={38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
    publisher={Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik}, author={Schiebel,
    Fabian Benedikt and Sattler, Florian and Schubert, Philipp Dominik and Apel, Sven
    and Bodden, Eric}, editor={Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido}, year={2024},
    pages={36:1–36:28}, collection={Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
    (LIPIcs)} }'
  chicago: 'Schiebel, Fabian Benedikt, Florian Sattler, Philipp Dominik Schubert,
    Sven Apel, and Eric Bodden. “Scaling Interprocedural Static Data-Flow Analysis
    to Large C/C++ Applications: An Experience Report.” In <i>38th European Conference
    on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)</i>, edited by Jonathan Aldrich and
    Guido Salvaneschi, 313:36:1–36:28. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
    (LIPIcs). Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik,
    2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36">https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36</a>.'
  ieee: 'F. B. Schiebel, F. Sattler, P. D. Schubert, S. Apel, and E. Bodden, “Scaling
    Interprocedural Static Data-Flow Analysis to Large C/C++ Applications: An Experience
    Report,” in <i>38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP
    2024)</i>, 2024, vol. 313, p. 36:1–36:28, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36">10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36</a>.'
  mla: 'Schiebel, Fabian Benedikt, et al. “Scaling Interprocedural Static Data-Flow
    Analysis to Large C/C++ Applications: An Experience Report.” <i>38th European
    Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)</i>, edited by Jonathan
    Aldrich and Guido Salvaneschi, vol. 313, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für
    Informatik, 2024, p. 36:1–36:28, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36">10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36</a>.'
  short: 'F.B. Schiebel, F. Sattler, P.D. Schubert, S. Apel, E. Bodden, in: J. Aldrich,
    G. Salvaneschi (Eds.), 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
    (ECOOP 2024), Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany,
    2024, p. 36:1–36:28.'
date_created: 2024-11-04T13:37:23Z
date_updated: 2025-12-04T10:41:59Z
department:
- _id: '76'
- _id: '662'
doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.36
editor:
- first_name: Jonathan
  full_name: Aldrich, Jonathan
  last_name: Aldrich
- first_name: Guido
  full_name: Salvaneschi, Guido
  last_name: Salvaneschi
intvolume: '       313'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 36:1–36:28
place: Dagstuhl, Germany
publication: 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-3-95977-341-6
  issn:
  - 1868-8969
publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
series_title: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)
status: public
title: 'Scaling Interprocedural Static Data-Flow Analysis to Large C/C++ Applications:
  An Experience Report'
type: conference
user_id: '15249'
volume: 313
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '56137'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Many Android applications collect data from users. The European Union's General
    Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires vendors to faithfully disclose which
    data their apps collect. This task is complicated because many apps use third-party
    code for which the same information is not readily available. Hence we ask: how
    accurately do current Android apps fulfill these requirements?\r\nIn this work,
    we first expose a multi-layered definition of privacy-related data to correctly
    report data collection in Android apps. We further create a dataset of privacy-sensitive
    data classes that may be used as input by an Android app. This dataset takes into
    account data collected both through the user interface and system APIs.\r\nWe
    manually examine the data safety sections of 70 Android apps to observe how data
    collection is reported, identifying instances of over- and under-reporting. Additionally,
    we develop a prototype to statically extract and label privacy-related data collected
    via app source code, user interfaces, and permissions. Comparing the prototype's
    results with the data safety sections of 20 apps reveals reporting discrepancies.
    Using the results from two Messaging and Social Media apps (Signal and Instagram),
    we discuss how app developers under-report and over-report data collection, respectively,
    and identify inaccurately reported data categories.\r\nOur results show that app
    developers struggle to accurately report data collection, either due to Google's
    abstract definition of collected data or insufficient existing tool support. "
author:
- first_name: Mugdha
  full_name: Khedkar, Mugdha
  id: '88024'
  last_name: Khedkar
- first_name: Ambuj Kumar
  full_name: Mondal, Ambuj Kumar
  last_name: Mondal
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: 'Khedkar M, Mondal AK, Bodden E. Do Android App Developers Accurately Report
    Collection of Privacy-Related Data? In: <i>In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM
    International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24)</i>.
    ; 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694949">10.1145/3691621.3694949</a>'
  apa: Khedkar, M., Mondal, A. K., &#38; Bodden, E. (2024). Do Android App Developers
    Accurately Report Collection of Privacy-Related Data? <i>In Proceedings of the
    39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops
    (ASEW ’24)</i>. 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
    (ASE 2024), Sacramento, California. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694949">https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694949</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Khedkar_Mondal_Bodden_2024, title={Do Android App Developers
    Accurately Report Collection of Privacy-Related Data?}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694949">10.1145/3691621.3694949</a>},
    booktitle={In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated
    Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24)}, author={Khedkar, Mugdha and Mondal,
    Ambuj Kumar and Bodden, Eric}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: Khedkar, Mugdha, Ambuj Kumar Mondal, and Eric Bodden. “Do Android App Developers
    Accurately Report Collection of Privacy-Related Data?” In <i>In Proceedings of
    the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops
    (ASEW ’24)</i>, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694949">https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694949</a>.
  ieee: 'M. Khedkar, A. K. Mondal, and E. Bodden, “Do Android App Developers Accurately
    Report Collection of Privacy-Related Data?,” presented at the 39th IEEE/ACM International
    Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024), Sacramento, California,
    2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694949">10.1145/3691621.3694949</a>.'
  mla: Khedkar, Mugdha, et al. “Do Android App Developers Accurately Report Collection
    of Privacy-Related Data?” <i>In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International
    Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24)</i>, 2024, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694949">10.1145/3691621.3694949</a>.
  short: 'M. Khedkar, A.K. Mondal, E. Bodden, in: In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM
    International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24),
    2024.'
conference:
  end_date: 2024-11-01
  location: Sacramento, California
  name: 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE
    2024)
  start_date: 2024-10-27
date_created: 2024-09-16T08:50:54Z
date_updated: 2024-11-18T13:19:51Z
ddc:
- '000'
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.1145/3691621.3694949
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2409.04167'
file:
- access_level: closed
  content_type: application/pdf
  creator: khedkarm
  date_created: 2024-09-16T08:49:42Z
  date_updated: 2024-09-16T08:49:42Z
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  file_name: 2409.04167v1.pdf
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file_date_updated: 2024-09-16T08:49:42Z
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language:
- iso: eng
publication: In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated
  Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24)
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title: Do Android App Developers Accurately Report Collection of Privacy-Related Data?
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---
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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "The increased complexity of modern software has led to much more\r\nsophisticated
    attack vectors. As a result, we require newer vulnerability detection\r\nmethods
    to ensure software security without compromising efficiency.\r\nThe Code Property
    Graph (CPG) is a program representation that provides a comprehensive overview
    of program behavior, combining abstract syntax trees, control flow\r\ngraphs,
    and program dependence graphs. With such a detailed data structure, we can\r\ndetect
    patterns that characterize known vulnerabilities and identify various security\r\nthreats.
    Querying the combined data structure instead of the individual graphs enables
    the detection of multidimensional scenarios.\r\nThis work aims to integrate the
    advantages of CPGs into software systems that utilize\r\nthe Jimple intermediate
    representation. We introduce JimNode, a novel approach for\r\ngenerating CPGs
    specifically tailored to Jimple. Despite the model incompatibility, our\r\nevaluation,
    which covered approximately 50,800 methods, reveals an 88.07% similarity\r\nof
    the inter-statement edges compared to Joern, the state-of-the-art tool for CPG\r\ngeneration.
    We provide a detailed analysis of our methodology and discuss why it is\r\nbetter
    suited for Jimple programs than Joern’s language-agnostic approach."
author:
- first_name: Michael Hany Fawzy
  full_name: Youkeim, Michael Hany Fawzy
  id: '77394'
  last_name: Youkeim
citation:
  ama: Youkeim MHF. <i>Tailoring Code Property Graphs to Jimple</i>. Paderborn University;
    2024.
  apa: Youkeim, M. H. F. (2024). <i>Tailoring Code Property Graphs to Jimple</i>.
    Paderborn University.
  bibtex: '@book{Youkeim_2024, place={Paderborn}, title={Tailoring Code Property Graphs
    to Jimple}, publisher={Paderborn University}, author={Youkeim, Michael Hany Fawzy},
    year={2024} }'
  chicago: 'Youkeim, Michael Hany Fawzy. <i>Tailoring Code Property Graphs to Jimple</i>.
    Paderborn: Paderborn University, 2024.'
  ieee: 'M. H. F. Youkeim, <i>Tailoring Code Property Graphs to Jimple</i>. Paderborn:
    Paderborn University, 2024.'
  mla: Youkeim, Michael Hany Fawzy. <i>Tailoring Code Property Graphs to Jimple</i>.
    Paderborn University, 2024.
  short: M.H.F. Youkeim, Tailoring Code Property Graphs to Jimple, Paderborn University,
    Paderborn, 2024.
date_created: 2024-11-26T09:13:02Z
date_updated: 2024-11-27T01:16:38Z
ddc:
- '000'
department:
- _id: '76'
file:
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  date_created: 2024-11-27T01:16:06Z
  date_updated: 2024-11-27T01:16:06Z
  file_id: '57444'
  file_name: Bachelor_Thesis__Michael_Youkeim_unsigned.pdf
  file_size: 432800
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file_date_updated: 2024-11-27T01:16:06Z
has_accepted_license: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
oa: '1'
place: Paderborn
publisher: Paderborn University
status: public
supervisor:
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
title: Tailoring Code Property Graphs to Jimple
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...
---
_id: '56140'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "    Android apps collecting data from users must comply with legal frameworks
    to ensure data protection. This requirement has become even more important since
    the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European
    Union in 2018. Moreover, with the proposed Cyber Resilience Act on the horizon,
    stakeholders will soon need to assess software against even more stringent security
    and privacy standards. Effective privacy assessments require collaboration among
    groups with diverse expertise to function effectively as a cohesive unit.\r\n
    \   This paper motivates the need for an automated approach that enhances understanding
    of data protection in Android apps and improves communication between the various
    parties involved in privacy assessments. We propose the Assessor View, a tool
    designed to bridge the knowledge gap between these parties, facilitating more
    effective privacy assessments of Android applications. "
author:
- first_name: Mugdha
  full_name: Khedkar, Mugdha
  id: '88024'
  last_name: Khedkar
- first_name: Michael
  full_name: Schlichtig, Michael
  id: '32312'
  last_name: Schlichtig
  orcid: 0000-0001-6600-6171
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
  ama: 'Khedkar M, Schlichtig M, Bodden E. Advancing Android Privacy Assessments with
    Automation. In: <i>In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference
    on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24)</i>. ; 2024. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694953">10.1145/3691621.3694953</a>'
  apa: Khedkar, M., Schlichtig, M., &#38; Bodden, E. (2024). Advancing Android Privacy
    Assessments with Automation. <i>In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International
    Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24)</i>. 39th IEEE/ACM
    International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024), Sacramento,
    California. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694953">https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694953</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Khedkar_Schlichtig_Bodden_2024, title={Advancing Android
    Privacy Assessments with Automation}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694953">10.1145/3691621.3694953</a>},
    booktitle={In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated
    Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24)}, author={Khedkar, Mugdha and Schlichtig,
    Michael and Bodden, Eric}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: Khedkar, Mugdha, Michael Schlichtig, and Eric Bodden. “Advancing Android
    Privacy Assessments with Automation.” In <i>In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM
    International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24)</i>,
    2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694953">https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694953</a>.
  ieee: 'M. Khedkar, M. Schlichtig, and E. Bodden, “Advancing Android Privacy Assessments
    with Automation,” presented at the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated
    Software Engineering (ASE 2024), Sacramento, California, 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694953">10.1145/3691621.3694953</a>.'
  mla: Khedkar, Mugdha, et al. “Advancing Android Privacy Assessments with Automation.”
    <i>In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software
    Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24)</i>, 2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3691621.3694953">10.1145/3691621.3694953</a>.
  short: 'M. Khedkar, M. Schlichtig, E. Bodden, in: In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM
    International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24),
    2024.'
conference:
  end_date: 2024-11-01
  location: Sacramento, California
  name: 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE
    2024)
  start_date: 2024-10-27
date_created: 2024-09-16T08:55:34Z
date_updated: 2026-03-13T12:12:45Z
ddc:
- '000'
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: 10.1145/3691621.3694953
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2409.06564'
file:
- access_level: closed
  content_type: application/pdf
  creator: khedkarm
  date_created: 2024-09-16T08:55:23Z
  date_updated: 2024-09-16T08:55:23Z
  file_id: '56141'
  file_name: 2409.06564v1.pdf
  file_size: 1207856
  relation: main_file
  success: 1
file_date_updated: 2024-09-16T08:55:23Z
has_accepted_license: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
publication: In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated
  Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW ’24)
status: public
title: Advancing Android Privacy Assessments with Automation
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user_id: '32312'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '52587'
author:
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Bodden, Eric
  id: '59256'
  last_name: Bodden
  orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
- first_name: Jens
  full_name: Pottebaum, Jens
  id: '405'
  last_name: Pottebaum
  orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8778-2989
- first_name: Markus
  full_name: Fockel, Markus
  id: '8472'
  last_name: Fockel
  orcid: 0000-0002-1269-0702
- first_name: Iris
  full_name: Gräßler, Iris
  id: '47565'
  last_name: Gräßler
  orcid: 0000-0001-5765-971X
citation:
  ama: Bodden E, Pottebaum J, Fockel M, Gräßler I. Evaluating Security Through Isolation
    and Defense in Depth. <i>IEEE Security &#38; Privacy</i>. 2024;22(1):69-72. doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1109/msec.2023.3336028">10.1109/msec.2023.3336028</a>
  apa: Bodden, E., Pottebaum, J., Fockel, M., &#38; Gräßler, I. (2024). Evaluating
    Security Through Isolation and Defense in Depth. <i>IEEE Security &#38; Privacy</i>,
    <i>22</i>(1), 69–72. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/msec.2023.3336028">https://doi.org/10.1109/msec.2023.3336028</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Bodden_Pottebaum_Fockel_Gräßler_2024, title={Evaluating Security
    Through Isolation and Defense in Depth}, volume={22}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/msec.2023.3336028">10.1109/msec.2023.3336028</a>},
    number={1}, journal={IEEE Security &#38; Privacy}, publisher={Institute of Electrical
    and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, author={Bodden, Eric and Pottebaum, Jens and
    Fockel, Markus and Gräßler, Iris}, year={2024}, pages={69–72} }'
  chicago: 'Bodden, Eric, Jens Pottebaum, Markus Fockel, and Iris Gräßler. “Evaluating
    Security Through Isolation and Defense in Depth.” <i>IEEE Security &#38; Privacy</i>
    22, no. 1 (2024): 69–72. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/msec.2023.3336028">https://doi.org/10.1109/msec.2023.3336028</a>.'
  ieee: 'E. Bodden, J. Pottebaum, M. Fockel, and I. Gräßler, “Evaluating Security
    Through Isolation and Defense in Depth,” <i>IEEE Security &#38; Privacy</i>, vol.
    22, no. 1, pp. 69–72, 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/msec.2023.3336028">10.1109/msec.2023.3336028</a>.'
  mla: Bodden, Eric, et al. “Evaluating Security Through Isolation and Defense in
    Depth.” <i>IEEE Security &#38; Privacy</i>, vol. 22, no. 1, Institute of Electrical
    and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024, pp. 69–72, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/msec.2023.3336028">10.1109/msec.2023.3336028</a>.
  short: E. Bodden, J. Pottebaum, M. Fockel, I. Gräßler, IEEE Security &#38; Privacy
    22 (2024) 69–72.
date_created: 2024-03-15T20:16:18Z
date_updated: 2026-03-31T02:19:49Z
department:
- _id: '152'
- _id: '76'
- _id: '662'
doi: 10.1109/msec.2023.3336028
intvolume: '        22'
issue: '1'
keyword:
- Law
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Computer Networks and Communications
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- url: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10411721
page: 69-72
publication: IEEE Security & Privacy
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 1540-7993
  - 1558-4046
publication_status: published
publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Evaluating Security Through Isolation and Defense in Depth
type: journal_article
user_id: '405'
volume: 22
year: '2024'
...
