6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and SystemsMOBILESoft 2019
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6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems
May 25 – 26, Montréal, Canada – Co-located with ICSE 2019 May 25 – 31

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In recent years, people’s lives all over the world have been shaped and empowered by the massive increase in the use of mobile applications. The number and versatility of available mobile applications continue to grow, accommodated by app stores and marketplaces that enable users to download and seamlessly install applications. Mobile platforms are rapidly evolving to continuously integrate diverse and powerful capabilities, including various sensors, cameras, wireless communication channels, as well as on-device memory and disk capacities.
As a result of ingeniously applying these technological developments, developers of mobile software are pushing the boundaries with innovative mobile services and exciting mobile applications. Consequently, due to the rapid development and evolution of mobile software, developers face new software engineering challenges. To address these challenges, researchers must create formally grounded methods that support novel advanced practices and tools.
MOBILESoft provides a premier working conference-style forum for discussing and presenting innovative contributions to the research and practice of the design, development, validation, execution, and evolution of mobile applications.
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Sat 25 May Times are displayed in time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
09:00 - 09:15: WelcomeMOBILESoft at Saint-Paul Chair(s): Denys PoshyvanykWilliam and Mary, Ivano MalavoltaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Eli TilevichVirginia Tech | |||
11:00 - 12:00: TestingMOBILESoft at Saint-Paul Chair(s): Ivano MalavoltaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam | |||
11:00 - 11:30 Research paper | Testing Nearby Peer-to-Peer Mobile Apps at Large MOBILESoft Lakhdar MeftahInria and University of Lille, Romain RouvoyUniversity Lille 1 and INRIA, Isabelle Chrisment | ||
11:30 - 11:45 Short-paper | A framework for testing Android apps by reusing test cases MOBILESoft | ||
11:45 - 12:00 Short-paper | EarlGrey : UI Automation Testing in iOS MOBILESoft |
12:00 - 12:30: SecurityMOBILESoft at Saint-Paul Chair(s): Grace LewisCarnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute | |||
12:00 - 12:15 Short-paper | Security Analysis for SmartThings IoT Applications MOBILESoft | ||
12:15 - 12:30 Short-paper | FireBugs: Finding and Repairing Bugs with Security Patterns MOBILESoft |
14:00 - 14:15 Short-paper | Identifying Features of Android Apps from Execution Traces MOBILESoft Qi XinGeorgia Institute of Technology, Farnaz BehrangGeorgia Institute of Technology, Mattia FazziniGeorgia Institute of Technology, Alessandro OrsoGeorgia Tech | ||
14:15 - 14:30 Short-paper | A Look Into Developer Intentions for App Compatibility in Android MOBILESoft Pre-print | ||
14:30 - 14:45 Short-paper | A Microservice Architecture for Online Mobile App Optimization MOBILESoft Pre-print | ||
14:45 - 15:15 Full-paper | PerfProbe: A Systematic Cross-Layer Performance Diagnosis Framework for Mobile Platforms MOBILESoft Ke David HongUniversity of Michigan, Ashkan NikraveshUniversity of Michigan, Morley MaoUniversity of Michigan, Mahesh Ketkar, Michael Kishinevsky | ||
15:15 - 15:30 Short-paper | Tool Demo: Google Play Android Vitals and Release Management MOBILESoft Julian HartyCommercetest Limited Pre-print |
16:00 - 16:30: Development PracticesMOBILESoft at Saint-Paul Chair(s): Denys PoshyvanykWilliam and Mary | |||
16:00 - 16:30 Full-paper | An Observational Study on the State of REST API Uses in Android Mobile Applications MOBILESoft Abdelkarim Belkhir, Manel Abdellatif, Rafik TighiltUniversité du Québec à Montréal, Naouel MohaUniversity of Montreal, Yann-Gaël GuéhéneucConcordia University and Polytechnique Montréal, Eric Beaudry |
16:30 - 17:30: Poster SessionMOBILESoft at Square Dorchester Chair(s): Denys PoshyvanykWilliam and Mary | |||
Sun 26 May Times are displayed in time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
09:00 - 10:30: Bugs and Code SmellsMOBILESoft at Saint-Paul Chair(s): Young-Woo KwonUtah State University | |||
09:00 - 09:30 Full-paper | On the Survival of Android Code Smells in the Wild MOBILESoft Sarra HabchiUniversity of Lille, Romain RouvoyUniversity of Lille, Lille, France, Naouel MohaUniversity of Montreal | ||
09:30 - 10:00 Full-paper | Cross-Project Just-in-Time Bug Prediction for Mobile Apps: An Empirical Assessment MOBILESoft Gemma CatolinoUniversity of Salerno, Dario Di NucciVrije Universiteit Brussel, Filomena FerrucciUniversity of Salerno Pre-print | ||
10:00 - 10:30 Full-paper | A Comparison of Bugs across the iOS and Android Platforms of Two Open Source Cross Platform Browser Apps MOBILESoft Wajdi AljedaaniAlkharj College of Technology, Mei NagappanUniversity of Waterloo, Bram AdamsMCIS, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Michael W. GodfreyUniversity of Waterloo, Canada Pre-print |
11:00 - 11:45: Bugs and Code Smells 2MOBILESoft at Saint-Paul Chair(s): Gemma CatolinoUniversity of Salerno | |||
11:00 - 11:30 Full-paper | Characterizing Android-specific crash bugs MOBILESoft | ||
11:30 - 11:45 Short-paper | Sniffing Android Code Smells:An Association Rules Mining-based Approach MOBILESoft Jehan Rubin, Adel Nassim Henniche, Naouel MohaUniversity of Montreal, Mohamed Bouguessa, Nabila Bousbia |
11:45 - 12:15 Full-paper | Warble: Programming Abstractions for Personalizing Interactions in the Internet of Things MOBILESoft Yosef SaputraUniversity of Texas at Austin, Jie Hua, Nathaniel Wendt, Christine JulienUniversity of Texas at Austin, Gruia-Catalin RomanUniversity of New Mexico | ||
12:15 - 12:30 Short-paper | Pocket Code - A Mobile Visual Programming Framework For App Development MOBILESoft Matthias MüllerInstitute of Software Technology, Graz University of Technology , Christian SchindlerInstitute of Software Technology, Graz University of Technology |
15:00 - 15:45: SRC PresentationsMOBILESoft at Saint-Paul Chair(s): Stephan KruscheTechnische Universität München | |||
15:00 - 15:15 Short-paper | Privacy-Preserving Architecture for Cloud-IoT MOBILESoft | ||
15:15 - 15:30 Short-paper | A Preliminary Study of Android Refactorings MOBILESoft Anthony PerumaRochester Institute of Technology | ||
15:30 - 15:45 Short-paper | Automated Tool Support for Repairing Security Bugs in Android Mobile Apps MOBILESoft Larry SingletonUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha |
16:00 - 17:00: Development Practices (cont.)MOBILESoft at Saint-Paul Chair(s): Yixue ZhaoUniversity of Southern California, USA | |||
16:00 - 16:30 Full-paper | Characterizing the Global Mobile App Developers: A Large-scale Empirical Study MOBILESoft Haoyu WangBeijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, Xupu Wang, Yao GuoPeking University | ||
16:30 - 17:00 Full-paper | Two Datasets of Questions and Answers for Studying the Development of Cross-platform Mobile Applications using Xamarin Framework MOBILESoft |
Call for Papers
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