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A Memory Usage Comparison Between Jitana And Soot, Yuanjiu Hu
A Memory Usage Comparison Between Jitana And Soot, Yuanjiu Hu
Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
There are several factors that make analyzing Android apps to address dependability and security concerns challenging. These factors include (i) resource efficiency as analysts need to be able to analyze large code-bases to look for issues that can exist in the application code and underlying platform code; (ii) scalability as today’s cybercriminals deploy attacks that may involve many participating apps; and (iii) in many cases, security analysts often rely on dynamic or hybrid analysis techniques to detect and identify the sources of issues.
The underlying principle governing the design of existing program analysis engines is the main cause that prevents …
Gaindroid: General Automated Incompatibility Notifier For Android Applications, Bruno Vieira Resende E Silva
Gaindroid: General Automated Incompatibility Notifier For Android Applications, Bruno Vieira Resende E Silva
Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
With the ever-increasing popularity of mobile devices over the last decade, mobile apps and the frameworks upon which they are built frequently change. This rapid evolution leads to a confusing jumble of devices and applications utilizing differing features even within the same framework. For Android apps and devices, representing over 80% of the market share, mismatches between the version of the Android operating system installed on a device and the version of the app installed, can lead to several run-time crashes, providing a poor user experience.
This thesis presents GAINDroid, an analysis approach, backed with a classloader based program analyzer, …
Solving The Search For Source Code, Kathryn T. Stolee
Solving The Search For Source Code, Kathryn T. Stolee
Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Programmers frequently search for source code to reuse using keyword searches. When effective and efficient, a code search can boost programmer productivity, however, the search effectiveness depends on the programmer's ability to specify a query that captures how the desired code may have been implemented. Further, the results often include many irrelevant matches that must be filtered manually. More semantic search approaches could address these limitations, yet existing approaches either do not scale, are not flexible enough to find approximate matches, or require complex specifications.
We propose a novel approach to semantic search that addresses some of these limitations and …