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ICSE 2019
Sat 25 - Fri 31 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
Wed 29 May 2019 16:00 - 16:20 at Mansfield / Sherbrooke - Mobile Apps Chair(s): Sandeep Kuttal

While there have been various studies towards Android app and its development, there is limited discussion of the broader class of apps that fall in fake area. Fake app and its development are distinct from official app and belong to the mobile underground industry. Due to the lack of knowledge of mobile underground industry, fake apps, its ecosystem and nature still remain in mystery.

To fill the blank, we conduct the first systematic and comprehensive empirical study on a large-scale set of fake apps. Over 150,000 samples that fake the top 50 popular apps are collected and extensively measured. In this paper, we present discoveries from three different perspectives, namely fake sample characteristics, quantitative study on fake samples and fake authors’ developing trend. Valuable domain knowledge, like fake apps’ naming tendency and fake developers’ evasive strategies, are then presented and confirmed with case studies, demonstrating a clear vision of fake app and its ecosystem.

Wed 29 May

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16:00 - 18:00
16:00
20m
Talk
Large-scale Empirical Study on Industrial Fake AppsSEIPIndustry Program
Software Engineering in Practice
Chongbin Tang East China Normal University, Sen Chen Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Lingling Fan Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Lihua Xu , Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Zhushou Tang Pwnzen Infotech Inc., Liang Dou East China Normal University
16:20
20m
Talk
Practical Android Test Recording with Espresso Test RecorderSEIPIndustry Program
Software Engineering in Practice
Stas Negara Google, Naeem Esfahani Google LLC, USA, Ray Buse Google
16:40
20m
Talk
Mimic: UI Compatibility Testing System for Android AppsTechnical Track
Technical Track
Taeyeon Ki Samsung Research America, Chang Min Park University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Karthik Dantu University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Steve Ko University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Lukasz Ziarek SUNY Buffalo, USA
17:00
20m
Talk
IconIntent: Automatic Identification of Sensitive UI Widgets based on Icon Classification for Android AppsTechnical Track
Technical Track
Xusheng Xiao Case Western Reserve University, Xiaoyin Wang University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, Zhihao Cao Case Western Reserve University, Hanlin Wang Case Western Reserve University, Peng Gao Princeton University
Pre-print
17:20
10m
Talk
Studying Bad Updates of Top Free-to-Download Apps in the Google Play StoreIndustry ProgramJournal-First
Journal-First Papers
Safwat Hassan Queens University, Kingston, Canada, Cor-Paul Bezemer University of Alberta, Canada, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University
17:30
10m
Talk
Navigation-aware and Personalized Prefetching of Network Requests in Android AppsIndustry ProgramNIER
New Ideas and Emerging Results
Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Francesco Nocera Polytechnic University of Bari, Patricia Lago Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Marina Mongiello Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Pre-print Media Attached
17:40
20m
Talk
Discussion Period
Papers