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Static extraction of IFML models for Android apps

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An Huang,

Minxue Pan,

Tian Zhang,

Xuandong LiAuthors Info & Claims

MODELS '18: Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings

Pages 53 - 54

https://doi.org/10.1145/3270112.3278185

Published: 14 October 2018 Publication History

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Reverse engineering GUI models from Android apps is important for model based techniques. We believe that the UI driven feature of Android makes it necessary to build GUI models with sufficient details in order to adequately capture the apps' behavior.

In this work, we make some effort in static extraction of GUI models for Android apps and our focuses include: (i) analyzing container components including Navigation-View, Fragment and RecyclerView; (ii) extracting constraint information, especially those related to window transitions; (iii) representing the analysis result with Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) to visually present GUI elements of Android apps, so as to facilitate human comprehension and manual modification of the models.

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Static extraction of IFML models for Android apps
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software functional properties
      1. Formal methods
        Automated static analysis

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MODELS '18: Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings

October 2018

214 pages

ISBN:9781450359658

DOI:10.1145/3270112

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MODELS '18: ACM/IEEE 21th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

October 14 - 19, 2018

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Hoti DMaloku MGashi K(2023)SDLC Phases of a Mobile ApplicationDesigning and Developing Innovative Mobile Applications10.4018/978-1-6684-8582-8.ch013(232-249)Online publication date: 30-Jun-2023
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8582-8.ch013
Planas EDaniel GBrambilla MCabot J(2021)Towards a model-driven approach for multiexperience AI-based user interfacesSoftware and Systems Modeling10.1007/s10270-021-00904-yOnline publication date: 2-Aug-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-021-00904-y
Wan MAbolhassani NAlotaibi AHalfond W(2019)An Empirical Study of UI Implementations in Android Applications2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)10.1109/ICSME.2019.00016(65-75)Online publication date: Sep-2019
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Hamdani MButt WAnwar MAhsan IAzam FAhmed M(2019)A Novel Framework to Automatically Generate IFML Models From Plain Text RequirementsIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2019.29598137(183489-183513)Online publication date: 2019
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