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Software requirement classification is a longstanding and important problem in requirement engineering. Previous studies have applied various machine learning techniques for this problem, including Support Vector Machine (SVM) and decision trees. With the recent popularity of NLP…
We introduce a reusable automated model-based GUI testing technique for Android apps to accelerate the testing cycle. Our key insight is that the knowledge of event-activity transitions from the previous testing runs, i.e., executing which events can reach which activities, is va…
Systems worldwide deploy CAPTCHAs as a security mechanism to protect from unauthorized automated access. Typically, the effectiveness of CAPTCHAs is evaluated based on their resilience against bots. User perceptions of the interactive experience and effectiveness of CAPTCHAs have…
The HTML5 is used to display high quality graphics in web applications such as web games (i.e., games). However, automatically testing games is not possible with existing web testing techniques and tools, and manual testing is laborious. Many widely used web testing tools rely on…
Background: Recent advancements in large language models have motivated the practical use of such models in code generation and program synthesis. However, little is known about the effects of such tools on code readability and visual attention in practice. Objective: In this pap…
Identifier naming is one of the main sources of information in program comprehension, where a significant portion of software development time is spent. Previous research shows that similarity in identifier names could potentially hinder code comprehension, and subsequently code …
It is the basic right of a user to know how the permissions are used within the Android app’s scope and to refuse the app if granted permissions are used for the activities other than specified use which can amount to malicious behavior.
Automatic vulnerability detection is of paramount importance to promote the security of an application and should be exercised at the earliest stages within the software development life cycle (SDLC) to reduce the risk of exposure. Despite the advancements with state-of-the-art d…
Mobile apps, an essential technology in today’s world, should provide equal access to all, including 15% of the world population with disabilities. Assistive Technologies (AT), with the help of Accessibility APIs, provide alternative ways of interaction with apps for disabled use…
Information leaks in software can unintentionally reveal private data, yet they are hard to detect and fix. Although several methods have been proposed to detect leakage, such as static verification-based approaches, they require specialist knowledge, and are time-consuming. Rece…
Automatically assessing code readability is a relatively new challenge that has attracted growing attention from the software engineering community. In this paper, we outline the idea to regard code readability assessment as a learning-to-rank task. Specifically, we design a pair…
Names of classes/methods/variables play an important role in code readability. To investigate how developers choose names, Feitelson et al. conducted an empirical survey and suggested a method to improve naming quality. We replicated their study, but limited the survey subjects t…
Data science libraries are updated frequently, and new version releases commonly include breaking changes. These are updates that cause existing code to not compile or run. Developers often use older versions of libraries because it is challenging to update the source code of lar…
The rapid expansion of robotics relies on properly configuring and testing hardware and software. Due to the expense and hazard of real-world testing on hardware, robot system testing increasingly utilizes extensive simulation. Creating robot simulation tests requires specialized…
Deliberation is a common and natural behavior in human daily life. For example, when writing papers or articles, we usually first write drafts, and then iteratively polish them until satisfied. In light of such a human cognitive process, we propose DECOM, which is a multi-pass de…
Faults in spreadsheets are not uncommon and they can have significant negative consequences in practice. Various approaches for fault localization were proposed in recent years, among them techniques that transferred ideas from spectrum-based fault localization (SFL) to the sprea…
Test flakiness has been a common problem in the software automation testing, affecting the effectiveness and productivity of test automation. Many studies have been published to tackle test flakiness in the software research community, and existing test automation tools provide c…
Automatically producing behavioral exception (BE) API documentation helps developers correctly use the libraries. The state-of-the-art approaches are either rule-based, which is too restrictive in its applicability, or deep learning (DL)-based, which requires large training datas…
Microservices Architecture (MSA) has become a de-facto standard for designing cloud-native enterprise applications due to its efficient infrastructure setup, service availability, elastic scalability, dependability, and better security. Existing (monolithic) systems must be decom…
In this paper, we propose GameBlockchain, an open-source blockchain framework designed to support secure transactions of NFTs in modern computer games. Its purpose is to enable game industry stakeholders such as game developers, content creators, and regular gamers to create and …