---
_id: '15838'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: In the field of software analysis a trade-off between scalability and accuracy
    always exists. In this respect, Android app analysis is no exception, in particular,
    analyzing large or many apps can be challenging. Dealing with many small apps
    is a typical challenge when facing micro-benchmarks such as DROIDBENCH or ICC-BENCH.
    These particular benchmarks are not only used for the evaluation of novel tools
    but also in continuous integration pipelines of existing mature tools to maintain
    and guarantee a certain quality-level. Considering this latter usage it becomes
    very important to be able to achieve benchmark results as fast as possible. Hence,
    benchmarks have to be optimized for this purpose. One approach to do so is app
    merging. We implemented the Android Merge Tool (AMT) following this approach and
    show that its novel aspects can be used to produce scaled up and accurate benchmarks.
    For such benchmarks Android app analysis tools do not suffer from the scalability-accuracy
    trade-off anymore. We show this throughout detailed experiments on DROIDBENCH
    employing three different analysis tools (AMANDROID, ICCTA, FLOWDROID). Benchmark
    execution times are largely reduced without losing benchmark accuracy. Moreover,
    we argue why AMT is an advantageous successor of the state-of-the-art app merging
    tool (APKCOMBINER) in analysis lift-up scenarios.
author:
- first_name: Felix
  full_name: Pauck, Felix
  id: '22398'
  last_name: Pauck
- first_name: Shikun
  full_name: Zhang, Shikun
  last_name: Zhang
citation:
  ama: 'Pauck F, Zhang S. Android App Merging for Benchmark Speed-Up and Analysis
    Lift-Up. In: <i>2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software
    Engineering Workshop (ASEW)</i>. ; 2019. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/asew.2019.00019">10.1109/asew.2019.00019</a>'
  apa: Pauck, F., &#38; Zhang, S. (2019). Android App Merging for Benchmark Speed-Up
    and Analysis Lift-Up. In <i>2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated
    Software Engineering Workshop (ASEW)</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/asew.2019.00019">https://doi.org/10.1109/asew.2019.00019</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Pauck_Zhang_2019, title={Android App Merging for Benchmark
    Speed-Up and Analysis Lift-Up}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/asew.2019.00019">10.1109/asew.2019.00019</a>},
    booktitle={2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
    Workshop (ASEW)}, author={Pauck, Felix and Zhang, Shikun}, year={2019} }'
  chicago: Pauck, Felix, and Shikun Zhang. “Android App Merging for Benchmark Speed-Up
    and Analysis Lift-Up.” In <i>2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated
    Software Engineering Workshop (ASEW)</i>, 2019. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/asew.2019.00019">https://doi.org/10.1109/asew.2019.00019</a>.
  ieee: F. Pauck and S. Zhang, “Android App Merging for Benchmark Speed-Up and Analysis
    Lift-Up,” in <i>2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software
    Engineering Workshop (ASEW)</i>, 2019.
  mla: Pauck, Felix, and Shikun Zhang. “Android App Merging for Benchmark Speed-Up
    and Analysis Lift-Up.” <i>2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated
    Software Engineering Workshop (ASEW)</i>, 2019, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/asew.2019.00019">10.1109/asew.2019.00019</a>.
  short: 'F. Pauck, S. Zhang, in: 2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated
    Software Engineering Workshop (ASEW), 2019.'
date_created: 2020-02-06T17:06:51Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:52:38Z
ddc:
- '004'
department:
- _id: '77'
doi: 10.1109/asew.2019.00019
file:
- access_level: closed
  content_type: application/pdf
  creator: fpauck
  date_created: 2020-02-06T17:09:45Z
  date_updated: 2020-02-06T17:09:45Z
  file_id: '15839'
  file_name: AMT_final.pdf
  file_size: 644517
  relation: main_file
file_date_updated: 2020-02-06T17:09:45Z
has_accepted_license: '1'
keyword:
- Program Analysis
- Android App Analysis
- Taint Analysis
- App Merging
- Benchmark
language:
- iso: eng
project:
- _id: '1'
  name: SFB 901
- _id: '3'
  name: SFB 901 - Project Area B
- _id: '12'
  name: SFB 901 - Subproject B4
publication: 2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
  Workshop (ASEW)
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781728141367'
publication_status: published
status: public
title: Android App Merging for Benchmark Speed-Up and Analysis Lift-Up
type: conference
user_id: '477'
year: '2019'
...
---
_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:
- access_level: closed
  content_type: application/pdf
  creator: fpauck
  date_created: 2019-08-20T08:47:20Z
  date_updated: 2019-08-20T08:47:20Z
  file_id: '12947'
  file_name: fse19main-id44-p-ef9ce42-41855-final.pdf
  file_size: 442603
  relation: main_file
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'
...
---
_id: '5825'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Integrating apps on mobile devices into applications running on other devices
    is usually difficult. For instance, using a messenger on a smartphone to share
    a text written on a desktop computer often ends up in a cumbersome solution to
    transfer the text, because many applications are not designed for such scenarios.
    In this paper, we present an approach enabling the integration of apps running
    on Android devices into applications running on other devices and even other platforms.
    This is achieved by specifying adapters for Android apps, which map their services
    to a platform-independent service interface. For this purpose, we have developed
    a domain-specific language to ease the specification of such mappings. Our approach
    is applicable without the need to modify the existing Android apps providing the
    service. We analyzed its feasibility by implementing our approach and by specifying
    mappings for several popular Android apps, e.g., phone book, camera, and file
    explorer.
author:
- first_name: Dennis
  full_name: Wolters, Dennis
  id: '11308'
  last_name: Wolters
- first_name: Jonas
  full_name: Kirchhoff, Jonas
  id: '39928'
  last_name: Kirchhoff
- first_name: Christian
  full_name: Gerth, Christian
  last_name: Gerth
- first_name: Gregor
  full_name: Engels, Gregor
  id: '107'
  last_name: Engels
citation:
  ama: 'Wolters D, Kirchhoff J, Gerth C, Engels G. Cross-Device Integration of Android
    Apps. In: Sheng QZ, Stroulia E, Tata S, Bhiri S, eds. <i>Service-Oriented Computing</i>.
    Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016:171-185. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_11">10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_11</a>'
  apa: 'Wolters, D., Kirchhoff, J., Gerth, C., &#38; Engels, G. (2016). Cross-Device
    Integration of Android Apps. In Q. Z. Sheng, E. Stroulia, S. Tata, &#38; S. Bhiri
    (Eds.), <i>Service-Oriented Computing</i> (pp. 171–185). Cham: Springer International
    Publishing. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_11">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_11</a>'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Wolters_Kirchhoff_Gerth_Engels_2016, place={Cham}, title={Cross-Device
    Integration of Android Apps}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_11">10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_11</a>},
    booktitle={Service-Oriented Computing}, publisher={Springer International Publishing},
    author={Wolters, Dennis and Kirchhoff, Jonas and Gerth, Christian and Engels,
    Gregor}, editor={Sheng, Quan Z.  and Stroulia, Eleni  and Tata, Samir  and Bhiri,
    Sami Editors}, year={2016}, pages={171–185} }'
  chicago: 'Wolters, Dennis, Jonas Kirchhoff, Christian Gerth, and Gregor Engels.
    “Cross-Device Integration of Android Apps.” In <i>Service-Oriented Computing</i>,
    edited by Quan Z.  Sheng, Eleni  Stroulia, Samir  Tata, and Sami  Bhiri, 171–85.
    Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_11">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_11</a>.'
  ieee: D. Wolters, J. Kirchhoff, C. Gerth, and G. Engels, “Cross-Device Integration
    of Android Apps,” in <i>Service-Oriented Computing</i>, 2016, pp. 171–185.
  mla: Wolters, Dennis, et al. “Cross-Device Integration of Android Apps.” <i>Service-Oriented
    Computing</i>, edited by Quan Z.  Sheng et al., Springer International Publishing,
    2016, pp. 171–85, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_11">10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_11</a>.
  short: 'D. Wolters, J. Kirchhoff, C. Gerth, G. Engels, in: Q.Z. Sheng, E. Stroulia,
    S. Tata, S. Bhiri (Eds.), Service-Oriented Computing, Springer International Publishing,
    Cham, 2016, pp. 171–185.'
date_created: 2018-11-26T10:21:38Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T07:02:43Z
department:
- _id: '66'
doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46295-0_11
editor:
- first_name: 'Quan Z. '
  full_name: 'Sheng, Quan Z. '
  last_name: Sheng
- first_name: 'Eleni '
  full_name: 'Stroulia, Eleni '
  last_name: Stroulia
- first_name: 'Samir '
  full_name: 'Tata, Samir '
  last_name: Tata
- first_name: 'Sami '
  full_name: 'Bhiri, Sami '
  last_name: Bhiri
keyword:
- Cross-Device
- Integration
- Android
- Adapter
- DSL
language:
- iso: eng
page: 171-185
place: Cham
publication: Service-Oriented Computing
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9783319462943'
  - '9783319462950'
  issn:
  - 0302-9743
  - 1611-3349
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer International Publishing
status: public
title: Cross-Device Integration of Android Apps
type: conference
user_id: '39928'
year: '2016'
...