MOBILESoft 2023
Mon 15 - Tue 16 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia
co-located with ICSE 2023
Dates
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Mon 15 May

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09:00 - 10:30
Session 1Research Track at Meeting Room 111
Chair(s): Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, Li Li Beihang University, Lili Wei McGill University
09:00
30m
Talk
Welcome
Research Track

09:30
60m
Talk
When AI Meets Mobile App Testing: Getting There in Industrial Cases
Research Track
Tao Xie Peking University
11:00 - 12:30
Session 2Research Track at Meeting Room 111
Chair(s): Jordan Samhi University of Luxembourg
11:00
25m
Paper
Analysis of Library Dependency Networks of Package Managers Used in iOS
Research Track
Kristiina Rahkema University of Tartu, Dietmar Pfahl University of Tartu, Rudolf Ramler Software Competence Center Hagenberg
Pre-print
11:25
25m
Paper
FirmwareDroid: Towards Automated Static-Analysis of Pre-Installed Android Apps
Research Track
Thomas Sutter Zurich University of Applied Science/University of Zurich, Bernhard Tellenbach Armasuisse Cyber-Defence Campus
11:50
15m
Paper
Vulnerability Propagation in Package Managers Used in iOS Development
Research Track
Kristiina Rahkema University of Tartu, Dietmar Pfahl University of Tartu
Pre-print
12:05
10m
Talk
Q&A
Research Track

13:45 - 15:15
13:45
25m
Paper
Understanding the Impact of Fingerprinting in Android Hybrid Apps
Research Track
Abhishek Tiwari University of Passau, Germany, Jyoti Prakash University of Passau, Alimerdan Rahimov University of Passau, Germany, Christian Hammer University of Passau
14:25
40m
Talk
Leaders Forum Talk - Towards Data-Driven Mobile App Visual Testing
Research Track
Chunyang Chen Monash University
15:05
10m
Talk
Q&A
Research Track

15:45 - 17:15
Session 4Research Track / Tools and Datasets at Meeting Room 111
Chair(s): Xiaoyu Sun Australian National University, Australia
15:45
25m
Paper
Native vs Web Apps: Comparing the Energy Consumption and Performance of Android Apps and their Web Counterparts
Research Track
Ruben Horn Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Abdellah Lahnaoui Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Edgardo Reinoso Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Sicheng Peng Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Vadim Isakov Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Tanjina Islam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pre-print
16:10
15m
Paper
Ebserver: Automating Resource-Usage Data Collection of Android Applications
Tools and Datasets
Wellington de Oliveira Júnior University of Lisbon, Bernardo de Moraes Santana Júnior , Fernando Castor Utrecht University & Federal University of Pernambuco, João Paulo Fernandes LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
16:25
40m
Talk
Leaders Forum Talk - Discovering Requirements Using the App Store: when automation is not enough
Research Track
Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University
17:05
10m
Talk
Q&A
Research Track

Tue 16 May

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

09:00 - 10:30
Session 5Research Track at Meeting Room 111
Chair(s): Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, Li Li Beihang University, Lili Wei McGill University
09:30
60m
Talk
Why vulnerability analysis for Android needs to change fundamentally
Research Track
Steven Arzt Fraunhofer SIT; ATHENE
11:00 - 12:30
Session 6Research Track / Tools and Datasets at Meeting Room 111
Chair(s): Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, Li Li Beihang University, Lili Wei McGill University
11:00
20m
Talk
Awards
Research Track

11:21
29m
Talk
Achieving Energy Efficiency in Mobile Applications: Insights from our Most Influential Paper
Research Track
Luís Cruz Delft University of Technology
11:50
25m
Paper
Reducing the Impact of Breaking Changes to Web Service Clients During Web API
Research Track
Paul Schmiedmayer Technical University of Munich, Andreas Bauer Technical University of Munich, Bernd Bruegge TU Munich
12:15
15m
Paper
Issue-Labeler: an ALBERT-based Jira Plugin for Issue Classification
Tools and Datasets
Waleed Alhindi Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Abdulrahman Aleid Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Ilyes Jenhani Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology
13:45 - 15:15
13:45
15m
Paper
Sensitive and Personal Data: What Exactly Are You Talking About?
NIER (Novel Ideas and Emerging Results)
Maria Kober , Jordan Samhi University of Luxembourg, Steven Arzt Fraunhofer SIT; ATHENE, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé SnT, University of Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg
14:00
40m
Talk
Leaders Forum Talk - UX is the differential. What can we do as Software Engineers?
Research Track
Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas
14:40
30m
Talk
Rising Star - Mining User Interfaces to Support Software Development for Mobile Apps
Research Track
Kevin Moran George Mason University
15:10
5m
Talk
Q&A
Research Track

15:45 - 17:30
15:45
25m
Paper
Energy-Saving Strategies for Mobile Web Apps and their Measurement: Results from a Decade of Research
Research Track
Benedikt Dornauer University of Innsbruck; University of Cologne, Michael Felderer German Aerospace Center (DLR) & University of Cologne
Pre-print
16:10
15m
Paper
On Security and Energy Efficiency in Android Smartphones
Research Track
João Ferreira da Silva Júnior , Bernardo Santos University of Porto, Portugal, Wellington de Oliveira Júnior University of Lisbon, Nuno Antunes Universidade de Coimbra, Bruno Cabral , João Paulo Fernandes LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
16:25
50m
Talk
Leaders Forum Talk - Automated Test Reuse of GUI Tests across Similar Android Apps: Opportunities and Challenges
Research Track
Valerio Terragni University of Auckland
17:15
10m
Talk
Q&A
Research Track

17:25
5m
Talk
Closing
Research Track

Accepted Papers

Title
Achieving Energy Efficiency in Mobile Applications: Insights from our Most Influential Paper
Research Track
Analysis of Library Dependency Networks of Package Managers Used in iOS
Research Track
Pre-print
Awards
Research Track

Closing
Research Track

Energy-Saving Strategies for Mobile Web Apps and their Measurement: Results from a Decade of Research
Research Track
Pre-print
FirmwareDroid: Towards Automated Static-Analysis of Pre-Installed Android Apps
Research Track
Leaders Forum Talk - Automated Test Reuse of GUI Tests across Similar Android Apps: Opportunities and Challenges
Research Track
Leaders Forum Talk - Discovering Requirements Using the App Store: when automation is not enough
Research Track
Leaders Forum Talk - Towards Data-Driven Mobile App Visual Testing
Research Track
Leaders Forum Talk - UX is the differential. What can we do as Software Engineers?
Research Track
Native vs Web Apps: Comparing the Energy Consumption and Performance of Android Apps and their Web Counterparts
Research Track
Pre-print
On Security and Energy Efficiency in Android Smartphones
Research Track
Q&A
Research Track

Reducing the Impact of Breaking Changes to Web Service Clients During Web API
Research Track
Rising Star - Mining User Interfaces to Support Software Development for Mobile Apps
Research Track
Understanding the Impact of Fingerprinting in Android Hybrid Apps
Research Track
Vulnerability Propagation in Package Managers Used in iOS Development
Research Track
Pre-print
Welcome
Research Track

When AI Meets Mobile App Testing: Getting There in Industrial Cases
Research Track
Why vulnerability analysis for Android needs to change fundamentally
Research Track

About

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 (but not limited to) technological advancements, architectural approaches, software security, 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 significant new research or practical contributions. 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 IEEE conference proceedings template, specified in the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf options).

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 2023 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.

Open Science Policy

Just like leading software engineering conferences such as ICSE, the steering principle of the Open Science policy of MOBILESoft 2023 is that all research results should be accessible to the public and, if possible, empirical studies should be reproducible. In particular, we actively support the adoption of open data and open source principles and encourage all contributing authors to disclose (anonymized and curated) data to increase reproducibility and replicability. Note that sharing research data is not mandatory for submission or acceptance. However, sharing is expected to be the default, and non-sharing needs to be justified. We recognize that reproducibility or replicability is not a goal in qualitative research and that, similar to industrial studies, qualitative studies often face challenges in sharing research data. For guidelines on how to report qualitative research to ensure the assessment of the reliability and credibility of research results, see the ICSE Q&A page.

Upon submission to the research track, authors are asked

  • to make their data available to the program committee (via upload of supplemental material or a link to an anonymous repository) – and provide instructions on how to access this data in the paper, possibly in a section named “Data Availability” after the Conclusions; or
  • to include in the paper an explanation as to why this is not possible or desirable; and
  • to indicate if they intend to make their data publicly available upon acceptance. At least one reviewer will check whether the enclosed package contains what is declared in the paper. This quality check process will be very lightweight, and the main aim is to ensure that authors do not submit (partially) empty packages.

Submission

Submissions to the Technical Track can be made via hotCRP:https://icse2023-mobilesoft.hotcrp.com/.

Review Criteria

Each paper submitted to the Technical Papers Track will be evaluated based on the following criteria (we rely in part on ICSE Review Criteria 2023).

  • 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.
  • Significance: The extent to which the paper’s contributions can impact the field of software engineering, and under which assumptions (if any).
  • Novelty: The extent to which the contributions are sufficiently original with respect to the state-of-the-art.
  • Verifiability and Transparency: The extent to which the paper includes sufficient information to understand how an 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. New this year: the artifacts attached to the paper (or hyperlinked to it) will be checked by at least one reviewer.
  • Presentation: The extent to which the paper’s quality of writing meets the high standards of ICSE, including clear descriptions, as well as adequate use of the English language, absence of major ambiguity, clearly readable figures and tables, and adherence to the formatting instructions provided below.

Conference Attendance Expectation

If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for MOBILESoft 2023 and present the paper.

  1. Registration. We expect at least one author for each accepted paper to register at full registration rate (i.e., Member or Non-Member rate, depending on your society membership) by March 13, 2023. Note that a single author can cover multiple papers, whereas a student or Life/Retired rate is not suitable to cover a paper. When registering, please indicate the paper IDs in the proper field. The registration form is available here: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/icse-2023/Registration

  2. MOBILESoft 2023 will be in-person. If none of the authors of a paper are able to attend the conference, please inform us at your earliest convenience (and no later than March 7) and we will arrange a remote presentation (most likely with a prerecorded talk and live Q&A). Since only some conference rooms will be fully equipped to support a reliable live remote participation, we need to know this in advance. Please contact us using as subject “Remote present for paper TRACK-NUMBER”