- author = "Shin Hwei Tan and Zhen Dong and Xiang Gao and Abhik Roychoudhury",
- title = "Repairing Crashes in {Android} Apps",
- booktitle = "40th International Conference on Software Engineering",
- year = "2018",
- editor = "Marsha Chechik and Mark Harman",
- pages = "187--198",
- address = "Gothenburg, Sweden",
- month = "27 " # may # "-3 " # jun,
- publisher = "ACM",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, genetic improvement, mobile computing, Software, Automatic programming, Software testing and debugging, Dynamic analysis, Automated repair, APR, Android apps, Crash, SBSE",
- isbn13 = "978-1-4503-5638",
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URL = "
http://www.human-competitive.org/sites/default/files/tan-paper.pdf",
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URL = "
https://www.icse2018.org/event/icse-2018-technical-papers-repairing-crashes-in-android-apps",
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URL = "http://www.shinhwei.com/droixicse_camera.pdf",
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DOI = "
doi:10.1145/3180155.3180243",
- size = "12 pages",
- abstract = "Android apps are omnipresent, and frequently suffer from crashes leading to poor user experience and economic loss. Past work focused on automated test generation to detect crashes in Android apps. However, automated repair of crashes has not been studied. In this paper, we propose the first approach to automatically repair Android apps, specifically we propose a technique for fixing crashes in Android apps. Unlike most test-based repair approaches, we do not need a test-suite; instead a single failing test is meticulously analyzed for crash locations and reasons behind these crashes. Our approach hinges on a careful empirical study which seeks to establish common root-causes for crashes in Android apps, and then distills the remedy of these root-causes in the form of eight generic transformation operators. These operators are applied using a search-based repair framework embodied in our repair tool Droix. We also prepare a benchmark DroixBench capturing reproducible crashes in Android apps. Our evaluation of Droix on DroixBench reveals that the automatically produced patches are often syntactically identical to the human patch, and on some rare occasion even better than the human patch (in terms of avoiding regressions). These results confirm our intuition that our proposed transformations form a sufficient set of operators to patch crashes in Android.",
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notes = "p193 GenProg, Google Nexus 5x emulator
2018 HUMIES finalist
https://www.icse2018.org/profile/xianggao",
