---
_id: '10108'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Recent years have seen the development of numerous tools for the analysis
    of taint flows in Android apps. Taint analyses aim at detecting data leaks, accidentally
    or by purpose programmed into apps. Often, such tools specialize in the treatment
    of specific features impeding precise taint analysis (like reflection or inter-app
    communication). This multitude of tools, their specific applicability and their
    various combination options complicate the selection of a tool (or multiple tools)
    when faced with an analysis instance, even for knowledgeable users, and hence
    hinders the successful adoption of taint analyses.\r\n\r\nIn this work, we thus
    present CoDiDroid, a framework for cooperative Android app analysis. CoDiDroid
    (1) allows users to ask questions about flows in apps in varying degrees of detail,
    (2) automatically generates subtasks for answering such questions, (3) distributes
    tasks onto analysis tools (currently DroidRA, FlowDroid, HornDroid, IC3 and two
    novel tools) and (4) at the end merges tool answers on subtasks into an overall
    answer. Thereby, users are freed from having to learn about the use and functionality
    of all these tools while still being able to leverage their capabilities. Moreover,
    we experimentally show that cooperation among tools pays off with respect to effectiveness,
    precision and scalability."
author:
- first_name: Felix
  full_name: Pauck, Felix
  id: '22398'
  last_name: Pauck
- first_name: Heike
  full_name: Wehrheim, Heike
  id: '573'
  last_name: Wehrheim
citation:
  ama: 'Pauck F, Wehrheim H. Together Strong: Cooperative Android App Analysis. In:
    <i>Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering
    Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering</i>. ; 2019:374-384.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3338906.3338915">10.1145/3338906.3338915</a>'
  apa: 'Pauck, F., &#38; Wehrheim, H. (2019). Together Strong: Cooperative Android
    App Analysis. <i>Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software
    Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering</i>,
    374–384. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3338906.3338915">https://doi.org/10.1145/3338906.3338915</a>'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Pauck_Wehrheim_2019, title={Together Strong: Cooperative
    Android App Analysis}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3338906.3338915">10.1145/3338906.3338915</a>},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software
    Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering},
    author={Pauck, Felix and Wehrheim, Heike}, year={2019}, pages={374–384} }'
  chicago: 'Pauck, Felix, and Heike Wehrheim. “Together Strong: Cooperative Android
    App Analysis.” In <i>Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European
    Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering</i>,
    374–84, 2019. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3338906.3338915">https://doi.org/10.1145/3338906.3338915</a>.'
  ieee: 'F. Pauck and H. Wehrheim, “Together Strong: Cooperative Android App Analysis,”
    in <i>Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering
    Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering</i>, 2019,
    pp. 374–384, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3338906.3338915">10.1145/3338906.3338915</a>.'
  mla: 'Pauck, Felix, and Heike Wehrheim. “Together Strong: Cooperative Android App
    Analysis.” <i>Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software
    Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering</i>,
    2019, pp. 374–84, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3338906.3338915">10.1145/3338906.3338915</a>.'
  short: 'F. Pauck, H. Wehrheim, in: Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting
    on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of
    Software Engineering, 2019, pp. 374–384.'
date_created: 2019-06-04T11:15:25Z
date_updated: 2023-01-18T08:32:47Z
ddc:
- '004'
department:
- _id: '77'
doi: 10.1145/3338906.3338915
file:
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  creator: fpauck
  date_created: 2019-08-20T08:47:20Z
  date_updated: 2019-08-20T08:47:20Z
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file_date_updated: 2019-08-20T08:47:20Z
has_accepted_license: '1'
keyword:
- Android Taint Analysis
- Cooperation
- Precision
- Tools
language:
- iso: eng
page: 374-384
project:
- _id: '1'
  name: SFB 901
- _id: '3'
  name: SFB 901 - Project Area B
- _id: '12'
  name: SFB 901 - Subproject B4
publication: Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering
  Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-1-4503-5572-8
publication_status: published
status: public
title: 'Together Strong: Cooperative Android App Analysis'
type: conference
user_id: '22398'
year: '2019'
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