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Enabling Mutant Generation for Open- and Closed-Source Android Apps. 2020

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020
Escobar-Velásquez, C. and Linares-Vásquez, M. and Bavota, G. and Tufano, M. and Moran, K. P. and Di Penta, M. and Vendome, C. and Bernal-Cárdenas, C. and Poshyvanyk, D..
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
[ doi: 10.1109/TSE.2020.2982638 ] [ Bibtex ]

Enabling Mutant Generation for Open- and Closed-Source Android Apps

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Investigating types and survivability of performance bugs in mobile apps. 2020
Mazuera-Rozo, Alejandro and Trubiani, Catia and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele.
Empirical Software Engineering
[ doi: 10.1007/s10664-019-09795-6 ] [ Bibtex ]

Investigating types and survivability of performance bugs in mobile apps

@article{article, author = {Mazuera-Rozo, Alejandro and Trubiani, Catia and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele}, year = {2020}, month = mar, pages = {1-43}, title = {Investigating types and survivability of performance bugs in mobile apps}, volume = {25}, journal = {Empirical Software Engineering}, doi = {10.1007/s10664-019-09795-6} }
Software Documentation: The Practitioners’ Perspective. 2020
Aghajani, Emad and Nagy, Csaba and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Moreno, Laura and Bavota, Gabriele and Lanza, Michele and Sheperd, David.
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering
[ doi: ] [ Bibtex ]

Software Documentation: The Practitioners’ Perspective

@inproceedings{emad2020software, author = {Aghajani, Emad and Nagy, Csaba and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Moreno, Laura and Bavota, Gabriele and Lanza, Michele and Sheperd, David}, title = {Software Documentation: The Practitioners' Perspective}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering}, series = {ICSE'20}, year = {2020}, location = {Seoul, South Korea} }
Urban Transformations and Health: Methods for TrUST—a Natural Experiment Evaluating the Impacts of a Mass Transit Cable Car in Bogotá, Colombia. 2020
Sarmiento, Olga L. and Higuera-Mendieta, Diana and Wilches-Mogollon, Maria A. and Guzman, Luis A. and Rodríguez, Daniel A. and Morales, Ricardo and Méndez, Daniela and Bedoya, Claudia and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Arévalo, Maria Isabel and Martínez-Herrera, Eliana and Montes, Felipe and Meisel, Jose D. and Useche, Andrés F. and García, Elizabeth and Triana, Camilo A. and Medaglia, Andrés L. and Hessel, Philipp and Arellana, Julian and Moncada, Carlos and King, Abby C. and Diez Roux, Ana V..
Frontiers in Public Health
[ doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00064 ] [ Bibtex ]

Urban Transformations and Health: Methods for TrUST—a Natural Experiment Evaluating the Impacts of a Mass Transit Cable Car in Bogotá, Colombia

@article{10.3389/fpubh.2020.00064, author = {Sarmiento, Olga L. and Higuera-Mendieta, Diana and Wilches-Mogollon, Maria A. and Guzman, Luis A. and Rodríguez, Daniel A. and Morales, Ricardo and Méndez, Daniela and Bedoya, Claudia and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Arévalo, Maria Isabel and Martínez-Herrera, Eliana and Montes, Felipe and Meisel, Jose D. and Useche, Andrés F. and García, Elizabeth and Triana, Camilo A. and Medaglia, Andrés L. and Hessel, Philipp and Arellana, Julian and Moncada, Carlos and King, Abby C. and Diez Roux, Ana V.}, title = {Urban Transformations and Health: Methods for TrUST—a Natural Experiment Evaluating the Impacts of a Mass Transit Cable Car in Bogotá, Colombia}, journal = {Frontiers in Public Health}, volume = {8}, pages = {64}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00064}, doi = {10.3389/fpubh.2020.00064}, issn = {2296-2565} }
Hall-of-Apps: The Top Android Apps Metadata Archive. 2020

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020
Bello-Jiménez, Laura and Escobar-Velásquez, Camilo and Mojica-Hanke, Anamaria and Cortés-Fernández, Santiago and Linares-Vásquez, Mario.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories
[ doi: ] [ Bibtex ] [ preprint ]

Hall-of-Apps: The Top Android Apps Metadata Archive

@inproceedings{bello2020hallOfApps, author = {Bello-Jim\'{e}nez, Laura and Escobar-Vel\'{a}squez, Camilo and Mojica-Hanke, Anamaria and Cort\'{e}s-Fern\'{a}ndez, Santiago and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario}, title = {Hall-of-Apps: The Top Android Apps Metadata Archive}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories}, track = {Data Showcase}, series = {MSR'20}, year = {2020}, location = {Seoul, South Korea}, supporter = {Google}, supdetails = {Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020}, numpages = {4}, preprint = {https://caev03.github.io/assets/pdfs/bello2020hallOfApps.pdf}, online = {https://github.com/TheSoftwareDesignLab/hall-of-apps-tools}, selected = true }
Does Neuron Coverage Matter for Deep Reinforcement Learning? A Preliminary Study. 2020
Trujillo, Miller and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Escobar-Velásquez, Camilo and Dusparic, Ivana and Cardozo, Nicolás.
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Testing for Deep Learning and Deep Learning for Testing
[ doi: ] [ Bibtex ]

Does Neuron Coverage Matter for Deep Reinforcement Learning? A Preliminary Study

@inproceedings{trujillo2020neuron, author = {Trujillo, Miller and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Escobar-Vel\'{a}squez, Camilo and Dusparic, Ivana and Cardozo, Nicol\'{a}s}, title = {Does Neuron Coverage Matter for Deep Reinforcement Learning? A Preliminary Study}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Testing for Deep Learning and Deep Learning for Testing}, track = {Research Track}, series = {DeepTest'20}, year = {2020}, location = {Seoul, South Korea}, numpages = {6}, selected = false }
Source-Codeless Testing for Android Apps. 2020

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020
Escobar-Velásquez, Camilo.
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification
[ doi: ] [ Bibtex ] [ preprint ]

Source-Codeless Testing for Android Apps

@inproceedings{escobar2020source, author = {Escobar-Vel\'{a}squez, Camilo}, title = {Source-Codeless Testing for Android Apps}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification}, track = {Doctoral Symposium}, series = {ICST'20}, year = {2020}, supporter = {Google}, supdetails = {Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020}, location = {Porto, Portugal}, numpages = {2}, preprint = {https://caev03.github.io/assets/pdfs/escobar2020codeless.pdf}, selected = true }
Working Conditions for Software Developers in Colombia: An Effort-Reward-Imbalance-Based Study. 2019
Moreno, Judy and Aponte, Jairo and Linares-Vásquez, Mario.
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
[ doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_55 ] [ Bibtex ]

Working Conditions for Software Developers in Colombia: An Effort-Reward-Imbalance-Based Study

@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_55, author = {Moreno, Judy and Aponte, Jairo and Linares-V{\'a}squez, Mario}, editor = {Franch, Xavier and M{\"a}nnist{\"o}, Tomi and Mart{\'i}nez-Fern{\'a}ndez, Silverio}, title = {Working Conditions for Software Developers in Colombia: An Effort-Reward-Imbalance-Based Study}, booktitle = {Product-Focused Software Process Improvement}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, address = {Cham}, pages = {709--724}, isbn = {978-3-030-35333-9}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_55} }
Automatically Assessing Code Understandability. 2019
Scalabrino, S. and Bavota, G. and Vendome, C. and Linares-V?squez, M. and Poshyvanyk, D. and Oliveto, R..
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
[ doi: 10.1109/TSE.2019.2901468 ] [ Bibtex ]

Automatically Assessing Code Understandability

@article{scalabrino2019automatically, author = {{Scalabrino}, S. and {Bavota}, G. and {Vendome}, C. and {Linares-V?squez}, M. and {Poshyvanyk}, D. and {Oliveto}, R.}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, title = {Automatically Assessing Code Understandability}, year = {2019}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {1-1}, keywords = {Complexity theory;Software;Computer bugs;Readability metrics;Software measurement;Indexes;Software metrics;Code understandability;Empirical study;Negative result}, doi = {10.1109/TSE.2019.2901468}, issn = {2326-3881}, month = {} }
MutAPK: Source-Codeless Mutant Generation for Android Apps. 2019

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020
Escobar-Velásquez, C. and Osorio-Riaño, M. and Linares-Vásquez, M..
2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
[ doi: 10.1109/ASE.2019.00109 ] [ Bibtex ]

MutAPK: Source-Codeless Mutant Generation for Android Apps

@inproceedings{escobar2019mutapk, author = {{Escobar-Velásquez}, C. and {Osorio-Riaño}, M. and {Linares-Vásquez}, M.}, booktitle = {2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)}, title = {MutAPK: Source-Codeless Mutant Generation for Android Apps}, year = {2019}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {1090-1093}, supporter = {Google}, supdetails = {Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020}, keywords = {Mutation Testing, Closed Source Apps, Android}, doi = {10.1109/ASE.2019.00109}, issn = {1938-4300}, month = nov }
OPIA: A Tool for On-Device Testing of Vulnerabilities in Android Applications. 2019

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020
Bello-Jiménez, L. and Mazuera-Rozo, A. and Linares-Vásquez, M. and Bavota, G..
2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
[ doi: 10.1109/ICSME.2019.00073 ] [ Bibtex ]

OPIA: A Tool for On-Device Testing of Vulnerabilities in Android Applications

@inproceedings{bello2019opia, author = {{Bello-Jiménez}, L. and {Mazuera-Rozo}, A. and {Linares-Vásquez}, M. and {Bavota}, G.}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)}, title = {OPIA: A Tool for On-Device Testing of Vulnerabilities in Android Applications}, year = {2019}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {418-421}, supporter = {Google}, supdetails = {Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020}, keywords = {Android (operating system);cryptography;data integrity;data privacy;mobile computing;program testing;software maintenance;software quality;SQL;sensitive information;OPIA;android applications;mobile developers;users pressure;quality attributes;testing security vulnerabilities;mobile apps;on-device security testing;conduct SQL-injection attacks;record-and-replay testing;Data mining;Tools;Testing;NoSQL databases;Androids;Humanoid robots;security;Android;testing;confidentiality}, doi = {10.1109/ICSME.2019.00073}, issn = {1063-6773}, month = sep }
Can Everyone use my app? An Empirical Study on Accessibility in Android Apps. 2019

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020
Vendome, C. and Solano, D. and Liñán, S. and Linares-Vásquez, M..
2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
[ doi: 10.1109/ICSME.2019.00014 ] [ Bibtex ]

Can Everyone use my app? An Empirical Study on Accessibility in Android Apps

@inproceedings{vendome2019accessibility, author = {{Vendome}, C. and {Solano}, D. and {Liñán}, S. and {Linares-Vásquez}, M.}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)}, title = {Can Everyone use my app? An Empirical Study on Accessibility in Android Apps}, year = {2019}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {41-52}, supporter = {Google}, supdetails = {Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020}, keywords = {application program interfaces;data mining;handicapped aids;information retrieval;mobile computing;product design;Web sites;mining-based pilot study;accessibility APIs;Android apps;universal design principles;product designs;mobile apps;StackOverflow;formal open-coding;Androids;Humanoid robots;Tools;Guidelines;Sociology;Statistics;Mobile handsets;Empirical Studies;Mobile Accessibility;Universal Design}, doi = {10.1109/ICSME.2019.00014}, url = {10.1109/ICSME.2019.00014}, issn = {1063-6773}, month = sep }
Kraken-Mobile: Cross-Device Interaction-Based Testing of Android Apps. 2019

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020
Ravelo-Méndez, W. and Escobar-Vélasquez, C. and Linares-Vásquez, M..
2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
[ doi: 10.1109/ICSME.2019.00071 ] [ Bibtex ]

Kraken-Mobile: Cross-Device Interaction-Based Testing of Android Apps

@inproceedings{ravelo2019kraken, author = {{Ravelo-Méndez}, W. and {Escobar-Vélasquez}, C. and {Linares-Vásquez}, M.}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)}, title = {Kraken-Mobile: Cross-Device Interaction-Based Testing of Android Apps}, year = {2019}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {410-413}, supporter = {Google}, supdetails = {Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020}, keywords = {Android (operating system);mobile computing;program testing;public domain software;smart phones;software tools;high-quality cross-device apps;cross-device testing tool;validate test scenarios;tests scripts;Kraken-mobile;mobile applications;Android apps;Gherkin syntax;cross-device interaction-based testing;Testing;Engines;Tools;Graphical user interfaces;Androids;Humanoid robots;Automation;Signaling;Automated Testing;Cross-device Testing;Cross-application Testing}, doi = {10.1109/ICSME.2019.00071}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSME.2019.00071}, issn = {1063-6773}, month = sep }
Perspectives in Testing Deep RL. 2019
Cardozo, Nicolás and Dusparic, Ivana and Linares-Vásquez, Mario.
2019 1st International Workshop on Testing for Deep Learning and Deep Learning for Testing
[ doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21572.68483 ] [ Bibtex ]

Perspectives in Testing Deep RL

@inproceedings{cardozo2019deep, author = {Cardozo, Nicolás and Dusparic, Ivana and Linares-Vásquez, Mario}, year = {2019}, month = may, pages = {}, booktitle = {2019 1st International Workshop on Testing for Deep Learning and Deep Learning for Testing}, title = {Perspectives in Testing Deep RL}, url = {https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21572.68483}, doi = {10.13140/RG.2.2.21572.68483} }
Data-Driven Solutions to Detect API Compatibility Issues in Android: An Empirical Study. 2019
Scalabrino, S. and Bavota, G. and Linares-Vásquez, M. and Lanza, M. and Oliveto, R..
2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
[ doi: 10.1109/MSR.2019.00055 ] [ Bibtex ]

Data-Driven Solutions to Detect API Compatibility Issues in Android: An Empirical Study

@inproceedings{scalabrino2019msr, author = {{Scalabrino}, S. and {Bavota}, G. and {Linares-Vásquez}, M. and {Lanza}, M. and {Oliveto}, R.}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)}, title = {Data-Driven Solutions to Detect API Compatibility Issues in Android: An Empirical Study}, year = {2019}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {288-298}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/MSR.2019.00055}, keywords = {Android (operating system);application program interfaces;learning (artificial intelligence);mobile computing;Android apps;data-driven approach;API compatibility issues;official Android API;CiD;ACRYL;Android;API Compatibility Issues;Empirical Study}, doi = {10.1109/MSR.2019.00055}, issn = {2574-3848}, month = may }
The Android OS stack and its vulnerabilities: an empirical study. 2019
Mazuera-Rozo, Alejandro and Bautista-Mora, Jairo and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Rueda, Sandra and Bavota, Gabriele.
Empirical Software Engineering
[ doi: 10.1007/s10664-019-09689-7 ] [ Bibtex ]

The Android OS stack and its vulnerabilities: an empirical study

@article{mazuera2019vulnerabilities, doi = {10.1007/s10664-019-09689-7}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09689-7}, year = {2019}, month = feb, publisher = {Springer Nature}, author = {Mazuera-Rozo, Alejandro and Bautista-Mora, Jairo and Linares-V{\'{a}}squez, Mario and Rueda, Sandra and Bavota, Gabriele}, title = {The Android {OS} stack and its vulnerabilities: an empirical study}, journal = {Empirical Software Engineering} }
Automated Documentation of Android Apps. 2019
Aghajani, E. and Bavota, G. and Linares-Vásquez, M. and Lanza, M..
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
[ doi: 10.1109/TSE.2018.2890652 ] [ Bibtex ]

Automated Documentation of Android Apps

@article{aghajani2019tse, author = {{Aghajani}, E. and {Bavota}, G. and {Linares-Vásquez}, M. and {Lanza}, M.}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, title = {Automated Documentation of Android Apps}, year = {2019}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {1-1}, keywords = {Knowledge based systems;Documentation;Java;Cloning;Asia;Task analysis;Data mining;Program Comprehension;Documentation;Android}, doi = {10.1109/TSE.2018.2890652}, issn = {2326-3881}, month = {} }
Software Documentation Issues Unveiled. 2019
Aghajani, E. and Nagy, C. and Vega-Márquez, O. L. and Linares-Vásquez, M. and Moreno, L. and Bavota, G. and Lanza, M..
2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
[ doi: ] [ Bibtex ]

Software Documentation Issues Unveiled

@inproceedings{8811931, author = {{Aghajani}, E. and {Nagy}, C. and {Vega-Márquez}, O. L. and {Linares-Vásquez}, M. and {Moreno}, L. and {Bavota}, G. and {Lanza}, M.}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)}, title = {Software Documentation Issues Unveiled}, year = {2019}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {1199-1210} }
Crowdsourcing user reviews to support the evolution of mobile apps. 2018
Palomba, Fabio and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Oliveto, Rocco and Penta, Massimiliano Di and Poshyvanyk, Denys and Lucia, Andrea De.
Journal of Systems and Software
[ doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2017.11.043 ] [ Bibtex ]

Crowdsourcing user reviews to support the evolution of mobile apps

@article{palomba2018jss, title = {Crowdsourcing user reviews to support the evolution of mobile apps}, journal = {Journal of Systems and Software}, volume = {137}, pages = {143 - 162}, year = {2018}, issn = {0164-1212}, doi = {10.1016/j.jss.2017.11.043}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121217302807}, author = {Palomba, Fabio and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Oliveto, Rocco and Penta, Massimiliano Di and Poshyvanyk, Denys and Lucia, Andrea De}, keywords = {Mobile app evolution, User reviews, Mining app stores, Empirical study} }
Automated Extraction of Augmented Models for Android Apps. 2018
Liñán, S. and Bello-Jiménez, L. and Arévalo, M. and Linares-Vásquez, M..
2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
[ doi: 10.1109/ICSME.2018.00065 ] [ Bibtex ]

Automated Extraction of Augmented Models for Android Apps

@inproceedings{linan2018rip, author = {Li\~{n}\'{a}n, S. and Bello-Jim\'{e}nez, L. and Ar\'{e}valo, M. and Linares-V\'{a}squez, M.}, booktitle = {2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)}, title = {Automated Extraction of Augmented Models for Android Apps}, year = {2018}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {549-553}, doi = {10.1109/ICSME.2018.00065}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8530063}, issn = {2576-3148}, month = sep }
Multi-Objective Optimization of Energy Consumption of GUIs in Android Apps. 2018
Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Bernal-Cárdenas, Carlos and Penta, Massimiliano Di and Oliveto, Rocco and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
[ doi: 10.1145/3241742 ] [ Bibtex ]

Multi-Objective Optimization of Energy Consumption of GUIs in Android Apps

@article{linares2018tmooecgaa, author = {Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Bernal-C\'{a}rdenas, Carlos and Penta, Massimiliano Di and Oliveto, Rocco and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {Multi-Objective Optimization of Energy Consumption of GUIs in Android Apps}, journal = {ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.}, issue_date = {October 2018}, volume = {27}, number = {3}, month = sep, year = {2018}, issn = {1049-331X}, pages = {14:1--14:47}, articleno = {14}, numpages = {47}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3241742}, doi = {10.1145/3241742}, acmid = {3241742}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {Energy consumption, empirical study, mobile applications} }
Mutode: Generic JavaScript and Node.Js Mutation Testing Tool. 2018
Rodríguez-Baquero, Diego and Linares-Vásquez, Mario.
Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
[ doi: 10.1145/3213846.3229504 ] [ Bibtex ]

Mutode: Generic JavaScript and Node.Js Mutation Testing Tool

@inproceedings{rodriguez2018mutode, author = {Rodr\'{i}guez-Baquero, Diego and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario}, title = {Mutode: Generic JavaScript and Node.Js Mutation Testing Tool}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis}, series = {ISSTA 2018}, year = {2018}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5699-2}, location = {Amsterdam, Netherlands}, pages = {372--375}, numpages = {4}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3213846.3229504}, doi = {10.1145/3213846.3229504}, acmid = {3229504}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {JavaScript, Mutation testing, Node.js, Operators} }
To Distribute or Not to Distribute?: Why Licensing Bugs Matter. 2018
Vendome, Christopher and German, Daniel M. and Di Penta, Massimiliano and Bavota, Gabriele and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering
[ doi: 10.1145/3180155.3180221 ] [ Bibtex ]

To Distribute or Not to Distribute?: Why Licensing Bugs Matter

@inproceedings{vendome2018toDistribute, author = {Vendome, Christopher and German, Daniel M. and Di Penta, Massimiliano and Bavota, Gabriele and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {To Distribute or Not to Distribute?: Why Licensing Bugs Matter}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering}, series = {ICSE '18}, year = {2018}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5638-1}, location = {Gothenburg, Sweden}, pages = {268--279}, numpages = {12}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3180155.3180221}, doi = {10.1145/3180155.3180221}, acmid = {3180221}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {empirical studies, open source practices, software licenses} }
MDroid+: A Mutation Testing Framework for Android. 2018
Moran, Kevin and Tufano, Michele and Bernal-Cárdenas, Carlos and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Vendome, Christopher and Di Penta, Massimiliano and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings
[ doi: 10.1145/3183440.3183492 ] [ Bibtex ]

MDroid+: A Mutation Testing Framework for Android

@inproceedings{moran2018mdroid, author = {Moran, Kevin and Tufano, Michele and Bernal-C\'{a}rdenas, Carlos and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Vendome, Christopher and Di Penta, Massimiliano and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {MDroid+: A Mutation Testing Framework for Android}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings}, series = {ICSE '18}, year = {2018}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5663-3}, location = {Gothenburg, Sweden}, pages = {33--36}, numpages = {4}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3183440.3183492}, doi = {10.1145/3183440.3183492}, acmid = {3183492}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {android, mutation testing, operators} }
How developers micro-optimize Android apps (journal-first abstract). 2018
Linares-Vásquez, M. and Vendome, C. and Tufano, M. and Poshyvanyk, D..
2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
[ doi: 10.1109/SANER.2018.8330236 ] [ Bibtex ]

How developers micro-optimize Android apps (journal-first abstract)

@inproceedings{linares2018hdmaa, author = {Linares-V\'{a}squez, M. and Vendome, C. and Tufano, M. and Poshyvanyk, D.}, booktitle = {2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)}, title = {How developers micro-optimize Android apps (journal-first abstract)}, year = {2018}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {470-470}, keywords = {}, doi = {10.1109/SANER.2018.8330236}, issn = {}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8330236/}, month = mar }
A comprehensive model for code readability. 2018
Scalabrino, Simone and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Oliveto, Rocco and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
[ doi: 10.1002/smr.1958 ] [ Bibtex ]

A comprehensive model for code readability

@article{scalabrino2018acmfcr, author = {Scalabrino, Simone and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Oliveto, Rocco and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {A comprehensive model for code readability}, journal = {Journal of Software: Evolution and Process}, volume = {30}, number = {6}, year = {2018}, pages = {e1958}, keywords = {code readability, quality warning prediction, textual analysis}, doi = {10.1002/smr.1958}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/smr.1958}, eprint = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/smr.1958}, note = {e1958 smr.1958} }
Aiding Comprehension of Unit Test Cases and Test Suites with Stereotype-based Tagging. 2018
Li, Boyang and Vendome, Christopher and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Program Comprehension
[ doi: 10.1145/3196321.3196339 ] [ Bibtex ]

Aiding Comprehension of Unit Test Cases and Test Suites with Stereotype-based Tagging

@inproceedings{li2018icpc, author = {Li, Boyang and Vendome, Christopher and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {Aiding Comprehension of Unit Test Cases and Test Suites with Stereotype-based Tagging}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Program Comprehension}, series = {ICPC '18}, year = {2018}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5714-2}, location = {Gothenburg, Sweden}, pages = {52--63}, numpages = {12}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3196321.3196339}, doi = {10.1145/3196321.3196339}, acmid = {3196339}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {maintaining software, program comprehension, unit test cases} }
Overcoming Language Dichotomies: Toward Effective Program Comprehension for Mobile App Development. 2018
Moran, Kevin and Bernal-Cárdenas, Carlos and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Program Comprehension
[ doi: 10.1145/3196321.3196322 ] [ Bibtex ]

Overcoming Language Dichotomies: Toward Effective Program Comprehension for Mobile App Development

@inproceedings{moran2018icpc, author = {Moran, Kevin and Bernal-C\'{a}rdenas, Carlos and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {Overcoming Language Dichotomies: Toward Effective Program Comprehension for Mobile App Development}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Program Comprehension}, series = {ICPC '18}, year = {2018}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5714-2}, location = {Gothenburg, Sweden}, pages = {7--18}, numpages = {12}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3196321.3196322}, doi = {10.1145/3196321.3196322}, acmid = {3196322}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {Android, code, mobile, natural language, program comprehension} }
On-demand Developer Documentation. 2017
Robillard, M. P. and Marcus, A. and Treude, C. and Bavota, G. and Chaparro, O. and Ernst, N. and Gerosa, M. A. and Godfrey, M. and Lanza, M. and Linares-Vásquez, M. and Murphy, G. C. and Moreno, L. and Shepherd, D. and Wong, E..
2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
[ doi: 10.1109/ICSME.2017.17 ] [ Bibtex ]

On-demand Developer Documentation

@inproceedings{robillard2017icsme, author = {Robillard, M. P. and Marcus, A. and Treude, C. and Bavota, G. and Chaparro, O. and Ernst, N. and Gerosa, M. A. and Godfrey, M. and Lanza, M. and Linares-V\'{a}squez, M. and Murphy, G. C. and Moreno, L. and Shepherd, D. and Wong, E.}, booktitle = {2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)}, title = {On-demand Developer Documentation}, year = {2017}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {479-483}, doi = {10.1109/ICSME.2017.17}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8094446}, issn = {}, month = sep }
Continuous, Evolutionary and Large-Scale: A New Perspective for Automated Mobile App Testing. 2017
Linares-Vásquez, M. and Moran, K. and Poshyvanyk, D..
2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
[ doi: 10.1109/ICSME.2017.27 ] [ Bibtex ]

Continuous, Evolutionary and Large-Scale: A New Perspective for Automated Mobile App Testing

@inproceedings{linares2017cel, author = {Linares-V\'{a}squez, M. and Moran, K. and Poshyvanyk, D.}, booktitle = {2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)}, title = {Continuous, Evolutionary and Large-Scale: A New Perspective for Automated Mobile App Testing}, year = {2017}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {399-410}, doi = {10.1109/ICSME.2017.27}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8094439}, issn = {}, month = sep }
How do Developers Test Android Applications?. 2017
Linares-Vásquez, M. and Bernal-Cardenas, C. and Moran, K. and Poshyvanyk, D..
2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
[ doi: 10.1109/ICSME.2017.47 ] [ Bibtex ]

How do Developers Test Android Applications?

@inproceedings{linares2017icsme, author = {Linares-V\'{a}squez, M. and Bernal-Cardenas, C. and Moran, K. and Poshyvanyk, D.}, booktitle = {2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)}, title = {How do Developers Test Android Applications?}, year = {2017}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {613-622}, doi = {10.1109/ICSME.2017.47}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8094467}, issn = {}, month = sep }
Automated GUI Testing of Android Apps: From Research to Practice. 2017
Moran, Kevin and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion
[ doi: 10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.166 ] [ Bibtex ]

Automated GUI Testing of Android Apps: From Research to Practice

@inproceedings{moran2017icsec, author = {Moran, Kevin and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {Automated GUI Testing of Android Apps: From Research to Practice}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion}, series = {ICSE-C '17}, year = {2017}, isbn = {978-1-5386-1589-8}, location = {Buenos Aires, Argentina}, pages = {505--506}, numpages = {2}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.166}, doi = {10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.166}, acmid = {3098518}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA}, keywords = {Android, GUI, apps, automation, testing} }
An Empirical Study on Android-related Vulnerabilities. 2017
Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Escobar-Velásquez, Camilo.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories
[ doi: 10.1109/MSR.2017.60 ] [ Bibtex ] [ preprint ] [ Online Appendix ]

An Empirical Study on Android-related Vulnerabilities

@inproceedings{linares2017msr, author = {Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Escobar-Vel\'{a}squez, Camilo}, title = {An Empirical Study on Android-related Vulnerabilities}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories}, series = {MSR '17}, year = {2017}, isbn = {978-1-5386-1544-7}, location = {Buenos Aires, Argentina}, pages = {2--13}, numpages = {12}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/MSR.2017.60}, doi = {10.1109/MSR.2017.60}, acmid = {3104192}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA}, preprint = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.03356.pdf}, onlineappen = {http://ml-papers.gitlab.io/android.vulnerabilities-2017/appendix/MSR2017/paper.html} }
CrashScope: A Practical Tool for Automated Testing of Android Applications. 2017
Moran, Kevin and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Bernal-Cárdenas, Carlos and Vendome, Christopher and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion
[ doi: 10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.16 ] [ Bibtex ]

CrashScope: A Practical Tool for Automated Testing of Android Applications

@inproceedings{moran2017crashscope, author = {Moran, Kevin and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Bernal-C\'{a}rdenas, Carlos and Vendome, Christopher and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {CrashScope: A Practical Tool for Automated Testing of Android Applications}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion}, series = {ICSE-C '17}, year = {2017}, isbn = {978-1-5386-1589-8}, location = {Buenos Aires, Argentina}, pages = {15--18}, numpages = {4}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.16}, doi = {10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.16}, acmid = {3098350}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA}, keywords = {Android, automated testing, crash reports} }
Machine Learning-based Detection of Open Source License Exceptions. 2017
Vendome, Christopher and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Di Penta, Massimiliano and German, Daniel and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering
[ doi: 10.1109/ICSE.2017.19 ] [ Bibtex ]

Machine Learning-based Detection of Open Source License Exceptions

@inproceedings{vendome2017icse, author = {Vendome, Christopher and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Di Penta, Massimiliano and German, Daniel and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {Machine Learning-based Detection of Open Source License Exceptions}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering}, series = {ICSE '17}, year = {2017}, isbn = {978-1-5386-3868-2}, location = {Buenos Aires, Argentina}, pages = {118--129}, numpages = {12}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2017.19}, doi = {10.1109/ICSE.2017.19}, acmid = {3097383}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA}, keywords = {classifiers, empirical studies, software licenses} }
GEMMA: Multi-objective Optimization of Energy Consumption of GUIs in Android Apps. 2017
Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Bernal-Cárdenas, Carlos and Bavota, Gabriele and Oliveto, Rocco and Di Penta, Massimiliano and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion
[ doi: 10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.10 ] [ Bibtex ]

GEMMA: Multi-objective Optimization of Energy Consumption of GUIs in Android Apps

@inproceedings{linares2017gemma, author = {Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Bernal-C\'{a}rdenas, Carlos and Bavota, Gabriele and Oliveto, Rocco and Di Penta, Massimiliano and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {GEMMA: Multi-objective Optimization of Energy Consumption of GUIs in Android Apps}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion}, series = {ICSE-C '17}, year = {2017}, isbn = {978-1-5386-1589-8}, location = {Buenos Aires, Argentina}, pages = {11--14}, numpages = {4}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.10}, doi = {10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.10}, acmid = {3098348}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA} }
Enabling Mutation Testing for Android Apps. 2017
Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Tufano, Michele and Moran, Kevin and Di Penta, Massimiliano and Vendome, Christopher and Bernal-Cárdenas, Carlos and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
[ doi: 10.1145/3106237.3106275 ] [ Bibtex ]

Enabling Mutation Testing for Android Apps

@inproceedings{linares2017mdroid, author = {Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Bavota, Gabriele and Tufano, Michele and Moran, Kevin and Di Penta, Massimiliano and Vendome, Christopher and Bernal-C\'{a}rdenas, Carlos and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {Enabling Mutation Testing for Android Apps}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering}, series = {ESEC/FSE 2017}, year = {2017}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5105-8}, location = {Paderborn, Germany}, pages = {233--244}, numpages = {12}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3106237.3106275}, doi = {10.1145/3106237.3106275}, acmid = {3106275}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {Android, Fault taxonomy, Mutation testing, Operators} }
Automatically assessing code understandability: How far are we?. 2017
Scalabrino, S. and Bavota, G. and Vendome, C. and Linares-Vásquez, M. and Poshyvanyk, D. and Oliveto, R..
2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
[ doi: 10.1109/ASE.2017.8115654 ] [ Bibtex ]

Automatically assessing code understandability: How far are we?

@inproceedings{scalabrino2017ase, author = {Scalabrino, S. and Bavota, G. and Vendome, C. and Linares-V\'{a}squez, M. and Poshyvanyk, D. and Oliveto, R.}, booktitle = {2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)}, title = {Automatically assessing code understandability: How far are we?}, year = {2017}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {417-427}, doi = {10.1109/ASE.2017.8115654}, issn = {}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8115654/}, month = oct }
Documenting Database Usages and Schema Constraints in Database-centric Applications. 2016
Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Li, Boyang and Vendome, Christopher and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
[ doi: 10.1145/2931037.2931072 ] [ Bibtex ]

Documenting Database Usages and Schema Constraints in Database-centric Applications

@inproceedings{linares2016issta, author = {Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Li, Boyang and Vendome, Christopher and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {Documenting Database Usages and Schema Constraints in Database-centric Applications}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis}, series = {ISSTA 2016}, year = {2016}, isbn = {978-1-4503-4390-9}, location = {Saarbr\&\#252;cken, Germany}, pages = {270--281}, numpages = {12}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2931037.2931072}, doi = {10.1145/2931037.2931072}, acmid = {2931072}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA} }
FUSION: A Tool for Facilitating and Augmenting Android Bug Reporting. 2016
Moran, Kevin and Linares-Vásquez, Mario and Bernal-Cárdenas, Carlos and Poshyvanyk, Denys.
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion
[ doi: 10.1145/2889160.2889177 ] [ Bibtex ]

FUSION: A Tool for Facilitating and Augmenting Android Bug Reporting

@inproceedings{moran2016fusion, author = {Moran, Kevin and Linares-V\'{a}squez, Mario and Bernal-C\'{a}rdenas, Carlos and Poshyvanyk, Denys}, title = {FUSION: A Tool for Facilitating and Augmenting Android Bug Reporting}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion}, series = {ICSE '16}, year = {2016}, isbn = {978-1-4503-4205-6}, location = {Austin, Texas}, pages = {609--612}, numpages = {4}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2889160.2889177}, doi = {10.1145/2889160.2889177}, acmid = {2889177}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA} }

Enabling Mutant Generation for Open- and Closed-Source Android Apps. 2020

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020

Investigating types and survivability of performance bugs in mobile apps. 2020

Software Documentation: The Practitioners’ Perspective. 2020

Urban Transformations and Health: Methods for TrUST—a Natural Experiment Evaluating the Impacts of a Mass Transit Cable Car in Bogotá, Colombia. 2020

Hall-of-Apps: The Top Android Apps Metadata Archive. 2020

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020

Does Neuron Coverage Matter for Deep Reinforcement Learning? A Preliminary Study. 2020

Source-Codeless Testing for Android Apps. 2020

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020

Working Conditions for Software Developers in Colombia: An Effort-Reward-Imbalance-Based Study. 2019

Automatically Assessing Code Understandability. 2019

MutAPK: Source-Codeless Mutant Generation for Android Apps. 2019

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020

OPIA: A Tool for On-Device Testing of Vulnerabilities in Android Applications. 2019

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020

Can Everyone use my app? An Empirical Study on Accessibility in Android Apps. 2019

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020

Kraken-Mobile: Cross-Device Interaction-Based Testing of Android Apps. 2019

Supported by Google. Google Latin American Research Award (LARA) 2018-2020

Perspectives in Testing Deep RL. 2019

Data-Driven Solutions to Detect API Compatibility Issues in Android: An Empirical Study. 2019

The Android OS stack and its vulnerabilities: an empirical study. 2019

Automated Documentation of Android Apps. 2019

Software Documentation Issues Unveiled. 2019

Crowdsourcing user reviews to support the evolution of mobile apps. 2018

Automated Extraction of Augmented Models for Android Apps. 2018

Multi-Objective Optimization of Energy Consumption of GUIs in Android Apps. 2018

Mutode: Generic JavaScript and Node.Js Mutation Testing Tool. 2018

To Distribute or Not to Distribute?: Why Licensing Bugs Matter. 2018

MDroid+: A Mutation Testing Framework for Android. 2018

How developers micro-optimize Android apps (journal-first abstract). 2018

A comprehensive model for code readability. 2018

Aiding Comprehension of Unit Test Cases and Test Suites with Stereotype-based Tagging. 2018

Overcoming Language Dichotomies: Toward Effective Program Comprehension for Mobile App Development. 2018

On-demand Developer Documentation. 2017

Continuous, Evolutionary and Large-Scale: A New Perspective for Automated Mobile App Testing. 2017

How do Developers Test Android Applications?. 2017

Automated GUI Testing of Android Apps: From Research to Practice. 2017

An Empirical Study on Android-related Vulnerabilities. 2017

CrashScope: A Practical Tool for Automated Testing of Android Applications. 2017

Machine Learning-based Detection of Open Source License Exceptions. 2017

GEMMA: Multi-objective Optimization of Energy Consumption of GUIs in Android Apps. 2017

Enabling Mutation Testing for Android Apps. 2017

Automatically assessing code understandability: How far are we?. 2017

Documenting Database Usages and Schema Constraints in Database-centric Applications. 2016

FUSION: A Tool for Facilitating and Augmenting Android Bug Reporting. 2016