Collaborative Research: CCRI: Planning-C: An Infrastructure and Dataset for Research in Android Testing & Analysis

合作研究：CCRI：Planning-C：Android 测试研究的基础设施和数据集

• 批准号: 2235136
• 负责人: Wing Lam
• 金额: $ 6.63万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235136&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CCRI; Planning; Infrastructure

Given the importance of mobile applications (apps), researchers have dedicated considerable effort toward understanding, supporting, and automating mobile app development tasks. However, researchers looking to contribute to this area of work face several challenges related to building and maintaining tooling that can keep pace with the rapid evolution of mobile platforms (e.g., new Android updates) and the continuous process of mining apps and app-related data. This project aims to carry out planning activities that will lead to the construction of a new shared community infrastructure for conducting mobile app development research. This infrastructure, called MODAL, will support work across the disciplines of software engineering (SE), computer security, and human-computer interaction (HCI) by offering various configurable components supporting key steps of the research process.This project will (1) conduct a preliminary survey of the SE, computer security, and HCI communities to understand the mobile app research needs of these communities, (2) conduct interviews to understand the barriers researchers face and how a specific community infrastructure can mitigate these barriers, (3) host workshops to facilitate the exchange of best practices used for mining data and building analysis tools to guide the development of the infrastructure, (4) conduct a working group to explore the design of the infrastructure with existing researchers, researchers new to the topic, and educators of the topic, and (5) conduct a summative survey to assess the proposed infrastructure’s ability to support mobile app research. The improved tools and techniques proposed by this project will better support app developers, enabling them to write higher quality applications, potentially impacting billions of app users. This project will also explore the potential for using the envisioned infrastructure to teach students how to effectively write mobile app software. Finally, as part of the proposed planning activities, barriers and challenges related to research on mobile app development will be uncovered that will inform new types of classroom pedagogy and new tools that will benefit novice researchers.The long-term goal of this project is the creation of a sustainable open-source community centered around the proposed research infrastructure. The community will be fostered by the development of clear contribution guidelines, proper attribution of researcher contributions, and the distribution of researcher contributions to the larger academic community. During the planning period, we will maintain a website that contains details related to the survey, workshop, working group, and summative report outlining the proposed design of the research infrastructure. The website can be found at the following link: www.sagelab.io/modalThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

鉴于移动应用程序(App)的重要性，研究人员已投入大量精力来理解、支持和自动化移动应用程序开发任务。然而，希望为这一领域的工作做出贡献的研究人员面临着几个挑战，这些挑战涉及构建和维护工具，以跟上移动平台的快速发展(例如，新的Android更新)以及挖掘应用程序和应用程序相关数据的持续过程。该项目旨在开展规划活动，将导致建设一个新的共享社区基础设施，用于开展移动应用程序开发研究。此基础设施称为MODEL，将通过提供支持研究过程关键步骤的各种可配置组件来支持跨软件工程(SE)、计算机安全和人机交互(HCI)学科的工作。该项目将(1)对软件工程、计算机安全和人机交互社区进行初步调查，以了解这些社区的移动应用研究需求，(2)进行访谈，以了解研究人员面临的障碍以及特定社区基础设施如何缓解这些障碍，(3)主办研讨会，以促进交流用于挖掘数据和构建分析工具以指导基础设施开发的最佳实践，(4)领导一个工作组，与现有研究人员、新课题研究人员和该主题的教育工作者一起探索基础设施的设计，以及(5)进行总结性调查，以评估拟议基础设施支持移动应用研究的能力。该项目提出的改进的工具和技术将更好地支持应用程序开发人员，使他们能够编写更高质量的应用程序，潜在地影响数十亿应用程序用户。该项目还将探索使用设想的基础设施来教学生如何有效地编写移动应用程序软件的潜力。最后，作为拟议的规划活动的一部分，将发现与移动应用程序开发研究相关的障碍和挑战，这将为新型课堂教学和新工具提供信息，使新手研究人员受益。该项目的长期目标是创建一个以拟议的研究基础设施为中心的可持续开放源码社区。社区将通过制定明确的投稿指南、适当分配研究人员的贡献以及将研究人员的贡献分配给更大的学术社区来促进。在规划期间，我们将维护一个网站，其中包含与调查、研讨会、工作组和概述研究基础设施拟议设计的总结报告有关的细节。该网站的链接如下：www.sagelab.io/modal该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。