南方科技大学知识苑(SUSTech KC): Event-aware precise dynamic slicing for automatic debugging of Android applications

题名	Event-aware precise dynamic slicing for automatic debugging of Android applications
作者	Win，Hsu Myat1,2 ; Tan，Shin Hwei2,3 ; Sui，Yulei 1
通讯作者	Tan，Shin Hwei
发表日期	2023-04-01
DOI	10.1016/j.jss.2023.111606
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE 影响因子和分区
ISSN	0164-1212
EISSN	1873-1228
卷号	198
摘要	Dynamic slicing aims to find the program statements that affect the values computed at some point of interest (i.e., a particular statement or variable) under a given program input. It is an enabling technique for many software engineering tasks (e.g., program understanding and debugging). Due to Android's event-driven nature, dynamic slicing for Android is more challenging than that for traditional Java programs. Its asynchronous events drive the execution of an app through inter-component communications. These non-deterministic user events often yield a large search space when applying existing dynamic slicing techniques, which introduce redundant statements into the resulting slice. We present ESDroid, an Event-aware dynamic Slicing technique for AnDroid applications. The novelty of our approach lies in the combination of segment-based delta debugging and backward dynamic slicing to narrow the search space to produce precise slices for Android. Our experiment across 38 apps shows that ESDroid can help with slicing buggy code from exception program points. We compare the effectiveness of ESDroid with the state-of-the-art dynamic slicing tools (AndroidSlicer and Mandoline). ESDroid outperforms both tools by reporting up to 72% fewer spurious statements than AndroidSlicer, and 50% fewer than Mandoline in the resulting slice (the number of instructions to be examined).
关键词	Android Delta-debugging Slicing
相关链接	[Scopus记录]
收录类别	SCI ; EI
语种	英语
学校署名	通讯
资助项目	National Nat-ural Science Foundation of China, China[61902170] ; Australian Research, Australia["DP200101328","DP210101348"]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Software Engineering ; Computer Science, Theory & Methods
WOS记录号	WOS:000992925400001
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
EI入藏号	20230213380400
EI主题词	Android (operating system)
EI分类号	Computer Software, Data Handling and Applications:723 ; Computer Programming:723.1
ESI学科分类	COMPUTER SCIENCE
Scopus记录号	2-s2.0-85146053890
来源库	Scopus
引用统计	被引频次[WOS]：1
成果类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://sustech.caswiz.com/handle/2SGJ60CL/442606
专题	工学院_计算机科学与工程系
作者单位	1.Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology,University of Technology Sydney,NSW 2007,Australia 2.Department of Computer Science and Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,Guangdong,518055,China 3.Research Institute of Trustworthy Autonomous System,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,Guangdong,518055,China
第一作者单位	计算机科学与工程系
通讯作者单位	计算机科学与工程系; 南方科技大学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Win，Hsu Myat,Tan，Shin Hwei,Sui，Yulei. Event-aware precise dynamic slicing for automatic debugging of Android applications[J]. JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE,2023,198.
APA	Win，Hsu Myat,Tan，Shin Hwei,&Sui，Yulei.(2023).Event-aware precise dynamic slicing for automatic debugging of Android applications.JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE,198.
MLA	Win，Hsu Myat,et al."Event-aware precise dynamic slicing for automatic debugging of Android applications".JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE 198(2023).