| Title | Quality analysis of mobile applications with special focus on security aspects |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2021 |
| Authors | Rahkema, Kristiina |
| Conference Name | 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) |
| Keywords | code evolution, code smells, codes, compositionality, Computer architecture, human factors, Industries, ios, iOS Security, Libraries, Metrics, mobile applications, Mobile Apps, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, security, Training, visualization |
| Abstract | Smart phones and mobile apps have become an essential part of our daily lives. It is necessary to ensure the quality of these apps. Two important aspects of code quality are maintainability and security. The goals of my PhD project are (1) to study code smells, security issues and their evolution in iOS apps and frameworks, (2) to enhance training and teaching using visualisation support, and (3) to support developers in automatically detecting dependencies to vulnerable library elements in their apps. For each of the three tools, dedicated tool support will be provided, i.e., GraphifyEvolution, VisualiseEvolution, and DependencyEvolution respectively. The tool GraphifyEvolution exists and has been applied to analyse code smells in iOS apps written in Swift. The tool has a modular architecture and can be extended to add support for additional languages and external analysis tools. In the remaining two years of my PhD studies, I will complete the other two tools and apply them in case studies with developers in industry as well as in university teaching. |
| DOI | 10.1109/ASE51524.2021.9678681 |
| Citation Key | rahkema_quality_2021 |
Quality analysis of mobile applications with special focus on security aspects