StoryDroid: Automated Generation of Storyboard for Android AppsTechnical TrackIndustry Program
Mobile apps are now ubiquitous. Before developing a new app, the development team usually endeavors painstaking efforts to review many existing apps with similar purposes. The review process is crucial in sense that it reduces market risks and provides inspiration for app development. However, manual exploration of hundreds of existing apps by different roles (e.g., product manager, UI/UX designer, developer) in a development team can be ineffective. For example, it is difficult to completely explore all functionalities of the app in a short period of time. Inspired by the conception of storyboard in movie production, we propose a system, StoryDroid, to automatically generate the storyboard for Android apps, and assist different roles to review apps efficiently. Specifically, StoryDroid extracts the activity transition graph and leverages static analysis techniques to render UI pages to visualize the storyboard with the rendered pages. The mapping relations between UI pages and the corresponding implementation code (e.g., layout code, activity code, and method hierarchy) are also provided to users. Our comprehensive experiments unveil that StoryDroid is effective and indeed useful to assist app development. The outputs of StoryDroid enable several potential applications, such as the recommendation of UI design and layout code.
Thu 30 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
14:00 - 15:30 | Requirements Engineering for Mass-Market SoftwareSoftware Engineering in Practice / Technical Track / Papers / Journal-First Papers / Demonstrations at Van-Horne Chair(s): Paul Ralph University of Auckland | ||
14:00 30mTalk | (SEIP Talk) Data-Driven Requirements EngineeringSEIPIndustry Program Software Engineering in Practice Walid Maalej University of Hamburg, Maleknaz Nayebi Polytechnique Montréal, Guenther Ruhe University of Calgary | ||
14:30 20mTalk | Guigle: A GUI Search Engine for Android AppsDemosIndustry Program Demonstrations Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas William and Mary, Kevin Moran College of William & Mary, Michele Tufano College of William and Mary, Zichang Liu College of William & Mary, Linyong Nan College of William & Mary, Zhehan Shi College of William & Mary, Denys Poshyvanyk William and Mary Pre-print Media Attached | ||
14:50 20mTalk | StoryDroid: Automated Generation of Storyboard for Android AppsTechnical TrackIndustry Program Technical Track Sen Chen Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Lingling Fan Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Chunyang Chen Monash University, Ting Su Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Wenhe Li New York University Shanghai, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Lihua Xu | ||
15:10 10mTalk | Metamorphic Relations for Enhancing System Understanding and UseJournal-First Journal-First Papers Zhi Quan (George) Zhou University of Wollongong, Australia, Liqun Sun University of Wollongong, Tsong Yueh Chen Swinburne University of Technology, Dave Towey University of Nottingham Ningbo China | ||
15:20 10mTalk | Discussion Period Papers |