MOBILESoft 2022
Tue 17 - Wed 18 May 2022
co-located with ICSE 2022

Accepted Papers

Title
Adoption of Third-party Libraries in Mobile Apps: A Case Study on Open-source Android Applications
Technical Papers
Pre-print
An empirical study of privacy labels on the Apple iOS mobile app store
Technical Papers
Pre-print
A Tale of Two Countries: A Longitudinal Cross-Country Study of Mobile Users' Reactions to the COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lens of App Popularity
Technical Papers
Better Addressing Diverse Accessibility Issues in Emerging Apps: A Case Study using COVID-19 Apps
Technical Papers
Characterizing Human Aspects in Reviews of COVID-19 Apps
Technical Papers
Do You Have the Energy for This Meeting? An Empirical Study on the Energy Consumption of Android Videoconferencing Apps
Technical Papers
Pre-print Media Attached
Evaluating Swift-to-Kotlin and Kotlin-to-Swift Transpilers
Technical Papers
Extending EcoAndroid with Automated Detection of Resource Leaks
Technical Papers
PSDoodle: Fast App Screen Search via Partial Screen Doodle
Technical Papers
Pre-print Media Attached
ReChan: An Automated Analysis of Android App Release Notes to Report Inconsistencies
Technical Papers
Pre-print

Call for Papers

The technical papers track of MOBILESoft invites high quality submissions involving significant, novel, and emerging solutions for mobile application software engineering. These should be well-motivated, carefully compared, and contrasted with significant related research.

We welcome contributions related to mobile application software engineering including technological advancements, architectural approaches, advancements in design and implementation methods, testing and analysis approaches, user interfaces and HCI, business and organizational issues, and empirical studies.

We solicit contributions of full papers (up to 10 pages, with up to 2 additional pages only for references), and short papers (up to 4 pages, with 1 additional page only for references). Full papers are expected to make a significant new research or practical contribution. Short papers are expected to present an interesting, well-developed contribution of more modest proportions. Papers should include methodology, implementation, results, and discussion as appropriate. Solutions are expected to be rigorously evaluated. Paper must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review elsewhere whilst under consideration at MOBILESoft. We invite contributions from both academia and industry.

Formatting and Submission Instructions

All submissions must conform to the ACM formatting guidelines. Formatting instructions are available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for both LaTeX and Word users. LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and ACM-Reference-Format.bst without modification, enable the conference format in the preamble of the document (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}), and use the ACM reference format for the bibliography (i.e., \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}). The review option adds line numbers, thereby allowing referees to refer to specific lines in their comments.

All submissions must be in PDF. The page limit is strict. Papers that do not conform to these guidelines will be desk rejected before the review process.

MOBILESoft 2022 will follow a double-blind review process. Thus, no submission may reveal its authors’ identities. The authors must make every effort to honour the double-blind review process. In particular: (i) the authors’ names must be omitted from the submission, (ii) references to their prior work should be in the third person, and (iii) supplementary material (e.g., experiment replication package, YouTube video, source code of the proposed approach) should be provided anonymously. Any submission that does not comply with the double-blind review process will be rejected by the Technical Track PC Co-Chairs without further review. For information on the double-blind review process please click here.

Submission

Submissions to the Technical Track can be made via hotcrp.

Review Criteria

Each paper submitted to the Technical Papers track Track will be evaluated based on the following criteria (we rely in part on ICSE Review Criteria 2022).

  • Soundness: The extent to which the paper’s contributions and/or innovations address its research questions and are supported by rigorous application of appropriate research methods.
  • Importance of contribution: The extent to which the paper’s contributions can impact the field of Mobile Software Engineering and Systems.
  • Verifiability and Transparency: The extent to which the paper includes sufficient information to understand how innovation works; to understand how data was obtained, analyzed, and interpreted; and how the paper supports independent verification or replication of the paper’s claimed contributions
  • Quality of Presentation: The quality of the paper presented. A good paper includes clear descriptions, good use of the English language, absence of significant ambiguity, clearly readable figures and tables, and adherence to the formatting instructions provided below.

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM or IEEE Digital Libraries. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2022. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings is not allowed.

Dates
Tracks
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Tue 17 May

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06:00 - 07:00
Opening SessionTechnical Papers / NIER (Novel Ideas and Emerging Results) / Special Issue / Student Research Competition / Industry Forum / Tool Demos and Mobile Apps / Plenary at MOBILESoft room
Chair(s): Leonardo Mariani University of Milano-Bicocca, Gemma Catolino Tilburg University & ​Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo
06:00
15m
Day opening
MOBILESoft Opening
Plenary
Leonardo Mariani University of Milano-Bicocca, Gemma Catolino Tilburg University & ​Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo
06:15
45m
Keynote
Machine Learning based Malware Detection in Android: There and Back Again!
Plenary
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé SnT, University of Luxembourg
07:30 - 09:00
Session 1: Resource ConsumptionPlenary / Technical Papers / NIER (Novel Ideas and Emerging Results) at MOBILESoft room
Chair(s): Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo
07:30
13m
Paper
Predicting The Energy Consumption Level of Java Classes in Android Apps: An Exploratory Analysis
NIER (Novel Ideas and Emerging Results)
Emanuele Iannone University of Salerno, Manuel De Stefano Università di Salerno, Fabiano Pecorelli Tampere University, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
07:43
20m
Paper
Do You Have the Energy for This Meeting? An Empirical Study on the Energy Consumption of Android Videoconferencing Apps
Technical Papers
Leonhard Wattenbach , Basel Aslan Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Matteo Maria Fiore Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, Henley Ding , Roberto Verdecchia Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pre-print Media Attached
08:03
20m
Paper
Extending EcoAndroid with Automated Detection of Resource Leaks
Technical Papers
Ricardo B. Pereira INESC-ID and IST, University of Lisbon, João F. Ferreira INESC-ID and IST, University of Lisbon, Alexandra Mendes Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto & INESC TEC, Rui Abreu Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
08:23
13m
Paper
Quantifying Daily Evolution of Mobile Software Based on Memory Allocator Churn
NIER (Novel Ideas and Emerging Results)
Gunnar Kudrjavets University of Groningen, Jeff Thomas Facebook, Inc., Aditya Kumar Snap, Inc., Nachiappan Nagappan Microsoft Research, Ayushi Rastogi University of Groningen, The Netherlands
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
08:36
24m
Other
Breakout rooms with the authors
Plenary

18:00 - 19:30
Session 2: Mobile Health and COVID-19Technical Papers / Plenary / NIER (Novel Ideas and Emerging Results) at MOBILESoft room
Chair(s): Haipeng Cai Washington State University, USA
18:00
13m
Paper
Towards Better mHealth Apps: Understanding Current Challenges and User Expectations
NIER (Novel Ideas and Emerging Results)
Ben Philip Deakin University, Mohamed Abdelrazek Deakin University, Australia, Scott Barnett Deakin University, Alessio Bonti Deakin University, John Grundy Monash University
18:13
20m
Paper
Characterizing Human Aspects in Reviews of COVID-19 Apps
Technical Papers
Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota, Hourieh Khalajzadeh Monash University, Australia, Omar Haggag Monash University, Australia, Zhaoqing Li , Humphrey Obie Monash University, Chetan Arora Deakin University, Waqar Hussain Monash University, John Grundy Monash University
18:33
20m
Paper
Better Addressing Diverse Accessibility Issues in Emerging Apps: A Case Study using COVID-19 Apps
Technical Papers
Omar Haggag Monash University, Australia, John Grundy Monash University, Mohamed Abdelrazek Deakin University, Australia, Sherif Haggag Deakin University, Australia
18:53
20m
Talk
A Tale of Two Countries: A Longitudinal Cross-Country Study of Mobile Users' Reactions to the COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lens of App Popularity
Technical Papers
Liu Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, Yi Wang , Gareth Tyson Queen Mary University of London, Fei Lyu
19:13
17m
Other
Breakout rooms with the authors
Plenary

Wed 18 May

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06:00 - 07:30
Session 3: Industry Forum + AwardsIndustry Forum at MOBILESoft room
Chair(s): Rui Abreu Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, Ke Mao Facebook, Gemma Catolino Tilburg University & ​Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota
06:00
20m
Talk
Improving the Quality of Apps at Facebook with Sapienz
Industry Forum
Andrea Ciancone Meta Platforms, Inc.
06:20
20m
Talk
Uses of Logging and Analytics by Mobile App Developers
Industry Forum
Julian Harty Commercetest Limited
06:40
20m
Talk
Challenges and Mitigations when Applying AI in Mobile Applications
Industry Forum
07:00
30m
Panel
Panel
Industry Forum

08:00 - 09:30
Session 4: Program AnalysisTechnical Papers / Student Research Competition / Plenary / Tool Demos and Mobile Apps at MOBILESoft room
Chair(s): Valerio Terragni University of Auckland
08:00
20m
Paper
ReChan: An Automated Analysis of Android App Release Notes to Report Inconsistencies
Technical Papers
Daniel Dominguez Alvarez University of Verona and IMDEA Software Institute, Daniel Toniuc , Alessandra Gorla IMDEA Software Institute
Pre-print
08:20
13m
Paper
PSDoodle: Searching for App Screens via Interactive Sketching
Tool Demos and Mobile Apps
Soumik Mohian The University of Texas at Arlington, Christoph Csallner University of Texas at Arlington
Pre-print Media Attached
08:33
20m
Paper
PSDoodle: Fast App Screen Search via Partial Screen Doodle
Technical Papers
Soumik Mohian The University of Texas at Arlington, Christoph Csallner University of Texas at Arlington
Pre-print Media Attached
08:53
8m
Paper
Complement of Dynamic Slicing for Android Applications with Def-Use Analysis for Application Resources
Student Research Competition
Hsu Myat Win University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
09:01
13m
Short-paper
Evaluating Swift-to-Kotlin and Kotlin-to-Swift Transpilers
Technical Papers
Larissa Schneider Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Dominik Schultes Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen
09:14
16m
Other
Breakout rooms with the authors
Plenary

10:00 - 11:30
Session 5: Mobile App Qualit and Third-party Software + ClosingTechnical Papers / Plenary / Student Research Competition / Tool Demos and Mobile Apps at MOBILESoft room
Chair(s): Leonardo Mariani University of Milano-Bicocca, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec
10:00
13m
Paper
SwiftDependencyChecker: Detecting Vulnerable Dependencies Declared Through CocoaPods, Carthage and Swift PM
Tool Demos and Mobile Apps
Kristiina Rahkema University of Tartu, Dietmar Pfahl University of Tartu
Pre-print Media Attached
10:13
8m
Paper
Mobile GUI test script generation from natural language descriptions using pre-trained model
Student Research Competition
Chun Li Nanjing University
10:21
20m
Paper
An empirical study of privacy labels on the Apple iOS mobile app store
Technical Papers
Gian Luca Scoccia University of L'Aquila, Marco Autili University of L'Aquila, Italy, Giovanni Stilo , Paola Inverardi University of L'Aquila
Pre-print
10:41
20m
Paper
Adoption of Third-party Libraries in Mobile Apps: A Case Study on Open-source Android Applications
Technical Papers
Aidan Polese , Yuan Tian Queens University, Kingston, Canada, Safwat Hassan Thompson Rivers University
Pre-print
11:01
19m
Other
Breakout rooms with the authors
Plenary

11:20
10m
Day closing
MOBILESoft Closing
Plenary
Leonardo Mariani University of Milano-Bicocca, Gemma Catolino Tilburg University & ​Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo