Security code smells in apps: are we getting better?

Abstract

Users increasingly rely on mobile apps for everyday tasks, including security- and privacy-sensitive tasks such as online banking, e-health, and e-government. Additionally, a wealth of sensors captures the movements and habits of the users for fitness tracking and convenience. Despite legal regulations imposing requirements and limits on the processing of privacy-sensitive data, users must still trust the app developers to apply suffcient protections. In this paper, we investigate the state of security in Android apps and how security-related code smells have evolved since the introduction of the Android operating system.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Arzt:FSE22,
  author    = {Steven Arzt},
  title     = {Security code smells in apps: are we getting better?},
  booktitle = {{ESEC/SIGSOFT} {FSE}},
  pages     = {245--255},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2022},
}

Security code smells in apps: are we getting better?

Abstract

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