A first step towards detecting human values-violating defects in Android APIs

Conghui Li; Humphrey O. Obie; Hourieh Khalajzadeh

doi:10.1109/ASEW52652.2021.00022

A first step towards detecting human values-violating defects in Android APIs

Conghui Li, Humphrey O. Obie, Hourieh Khalajzadeh

Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity

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Abstract

Human values are an important aspect of life and should be supported in ubiquitous technologies such as mobile applications (apps). There has been a lot of focus on fixing certain kinds of violation of human values, especially privacy, accessibility, and security while other values such as pleasure, tradition, and humility have received little focus. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between human values and Android API services and developed algorithms to detect potential violation of these values. We evaluated our algorithms with a manually curated ground truthset resulting in a high performance, and applied the algorithms to 10,000 apps. Our results show a correlation between violation of values and the presence of viruses. Our results also show that apps with the lowest number of installations contain more violation of values and the frequency of the violation of values was highest in social apps.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021
Editors	Dan Hao, Denys Poshyvanyk
Place of Publication	Piscataway NJ USA
Publisher	IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	53-58
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665435833
ISBN (Print)	9781665411851
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEW52652.2021.00022
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis 2021 - Online, Australia Duration: 15 Nov 2021 → 15 Nov 2021 Conference number: 4th https://a-mobile.github.io/amobile2021.html

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021
Publisher	IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISSN (Print)	2151-0830

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Conference	International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis 2021
Abbreviated title	A-Mobile 2021
Country/Territory	Australia
Period	15/11/21 → 15/11/21
Internet address	https://a-mobile.github.io/amobile2021.html

Keywords

Android APIs
Code
Human values
Mobile Apps
Violations

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Li, C., Obie, H. O., & Khalajzadeh, H. (2021). A first step towards detecting human values-violating defects in Android APIs. In D. Hao, & D. Poshyvanyk (Eds.), Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021 (pp. 53-58). (Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021). IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEW52652.2021.00022

Li, Conghui ; Obie, Humphrey O. ; Khalajzadeh, Hourieh. / A first step towards detecting human values-violating defects in Android APIs. Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021. editor / Dan Hao ; Denys Poshyvanyk. Piscataway NJ USA : IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021. pp. 53-58 (Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021).

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Li, C, Obie, HO & Khalajzadeh, H 2021, A first step towards detecting human values-violating defects in Android APIs. in D Hao & D Poshyvanyk (eds), Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021. Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 53-58, International Workshop on Advances in Mobile
App Analysis 2021, Australia, 15/11/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEW52652.2021.00022

A first step towards detecting human values-violating defects in Android APIs. / Li, Conghui; Obie, Humphrey O.; Khalajzadeh, Hourieh.
Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021. ed. / Dan Hao; Denys Poshyvanyk. Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021. p. 53-58 (Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021).

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Li C, Obie HO, Khalajzadeh H. A first step towards detecting human values-violating defects in Android APIs. In Hao D, Poshyvanyk D, editors, Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021. Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2021. p. 53-58. (Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops, ASEW 2021). doi: 10.1109/ASEW52652.2021.00022

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