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ANCHOR: locating android framework-specific crashing faults
Kong, Pingfan; Li, Li; Gao, Jun et al.
2021In Automated Software Engineering
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Keywords :
Android Crash; Crashing Fault; Fault Localization
Abstract :
[en] Android framework-specific app crashes are hard to debug. Indeed, the callback-based event-driven mechanism of Android challenges crash localization techniques that are developed for traditional Java programs. The key challenge stems from the fact that the buggy code location may not even be listed within the stack trace. For example, our empirical study on 500 framework-specific crashes from an open benchmark has revealed that 37 percent of the crash types are related to bugs that are outside the stack traces. Moreover, Android programs are a mixture of code and extra-code artifacts such as the Manifest file. The fact that any artifact can lead to failures in the app execution creates the need to position the localization target beyond the code realm. In this paper, we propose Anchor, a two-phase suspicious bug location suggestion tool. Anchor specializes in finding crash-inducing bugs outside the stack trace. Anchor is lightweight and source code independent since it only requires the crash message and the apk file to locate the fault. Experimental results, collected via cross-validation and in-the- wild dataset evaluation, show that Anchor is effective in locating Android framework-specific crashing faults.
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
Kong, Pingfan ;  University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX
Li, Li;  Monash University
Gao, Jun ;  University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX
Riom, Timothée ;  University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX
Zhao, Yanjie;  Monash University
Bissyande, Tegawendé François D Assise  ;  University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX
Klein, Jacques ;  University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
ANCHOR: locating android framework-specific crashing faults
Publication date :
November 2021
Journal title :
Automated Software Engineering
ISSN :
1573-7535
Publisher :
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Focus Area :
Computational Sciences
FnR Project :
FNR11693861 - Characterization Of Malicious Code In Mobile Apps: Towards Accurate And Explainable Malware Detection, 2017 (01/06/2018-31/12/2021) - Jacques Klein
Funders :
FNR - Fonds National de la Recherche [LU]
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