ER Catcher: A Static Analysis Framework for Accurate and Scalable Event-Race Detection in Android
Android platform provisions a number of sophisticated concurrency mechanisms for the development of apps. The concurrency mechanisms, while powerful, are quite difficult to properly master by mobile developers. In fact, prior studies have shown concurrency issues, such as event-race defects, to be prevalent among real-world Android apps. In this paper, we propose a flow-, context-, and thread-sensitive static analysis framework, called ER Catcher, for detection of event-race defects in Android apps. ER Catcher introduces a new type of summary function aimed at modeling the concurrent behavior of methods in both Android apps and libraries. In addition, it leverages a novel, statically constructed Vector Clock for rapid analysis of happens-before relations. Altogether, these design choices enable ER Catcher to not only detect event-race defects with a substantially higher degree of accuracy, but also in a fraction of time compared to the existing state-of-the-art technique.
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17:10 - 18:10: Software Analysis (2) Research Papers / Industry Showcase at Kangaroo Chair(s): Saba AlimadadiSimon Fraser University | |||
17:10 - 17:30 Talk | Representing and Reasoning about Dynamic Code Research Papers Jesse BartelsUniversity of Arizona, Jon StephensUniversity of Texas at Austin, Saumya DebrayUniversity of Arizona | ||
17:30 - 17:50 Talk | ER Catcher: A Static Analysis Framework for Accurate and Scalable Event-Race Detection in Android Research Papers Navid SalehnamadiUniversity of California, Irvine, Abdulaziz AlshaybanUniversity of California, Irvine, Iftekhar AhmedUniversity of California at Irvine, USA, Sam MalekUniversity of California at Irvine, USA | ||
17:50 - 18:10 Talk | Automatic Generation of IFTTT Mashup Infrastructures Industry Showcase Lei LiuFujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., Mehdi BahramiFujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., Wei-Peng ChenFujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. |