Complement of dynamic slicing for Android applications with def-use analysis for application resources
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Abstract
Existing static and dynamic slicing techniques for Android applications exhibit limitations when the location of the fault is in application resources such as layout definitions and user interface strings. This paper proposes a novel approach called SfR (<u>S</u>licing <u>f</u>or <u>R</u>esources), which identifies the dependences between the program statements and the application resources to complete the slice for Android applications. We performed the static analysis to generate the resource dependence graph (RDG), which includes data dependences on application resources. We integrated RDG in AndroidSlicer and evaluated on 3 Android applications. The result shows that SfR is more efficient in accuracy than the existing state-of-the-art dynamic slicing technique named AndroidSlicer.
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ISBN:9781450393010
DOI:10.1145/3524613
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- Leonardo Mariani,
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- Mei Nagappan
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