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.

鉴于移动应用程序的重要性（APP），研究人员在理解，支持和自动化移动应用程序开发任务方面竭尽全力。但是，希望为这一工作领域做出贡献的研究人员面临着与构建和维护工具有关的几个挑战，这些挑战可以跟上移动平台的快速发展（例如，新的Android更新）以及采矿应用程序和与应用程序相关的数据的持续过程。该项目旨在开展计划活动，这将导致建设新的共享社区基础设施，以进行移动应用程序开发研究。这种称为模态的基础架构将通过提供支持研究过程的关键步骤的各种可配置的组件来支持整个软件工程（SE），计算机安全和人类计算机互动（HCI）的工作。该项目将（1）对SE，计算机安全和HCI Communities进行预先调查，以了解这些社区（2），以了解这些社区（2），该项目的预先调查（2）是对这些社区的进行预先调查（2） （3）特定的社区基础设施可以减轻这些障碍，以支持用于挖掘数据和建筑分析工具的最佳实践交换，以指导基础设施的发展，（4）进行工作组，以探索基础设施的设计，探索现有的研究人员与该主题的研究人员以及对主题的新教育以及（5）进行调查的研究人员，并提出了一项调查，并提出了一项调查，并提出了一项调查。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，并可能影响数十亿个应用程序用户。该项目还将探索使用设想的基础架构教学学生如何有效编写移动应用软件的潜力。最后，将发现作为拟议的计划活动，与移动应用程序开发研究相关的障碍和挑战，这将为新型的课堂教学法和将有益于新颖研究人员的新工具提供信息。该项目的长期目标是建立一个围绕拟议的研究基础设施的可持续开源社区。制定明确的贡献指南，研究人员贡献的适当属性以及研究人员对较大学术界的贡献的分配将促进社区的培养。在计划期间，我们将维护一个网站，其中包含与调查，研讨会，工作组和总结性报告有关的详细信息，概述了研究基础设施的拟议设计。该网站可以在以下链接上找到：www.sagelab.io/modalthis Award反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，认为通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。