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_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'
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