PhD student Khaled Ahmed, Dr. Mieszko Lis, and Dr. Julia Rubin win Distinguished Paper Award at ICST 2021

Congratulations to Khaled Ahmed, Dr. Mieszko Lis, and Dr. Julia Rubin, who received the Distinguished Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST) 2021 for their paper, “MANDOLINE: Dynamic Slicing of Android Applications with Trace-Based Analysis.”

The paper, Dr. Rubin explains, “proposes an efficient and effective program slicing approach for mobile applications, which outperforms the state-of-the-art in this area. It is used in our current work on mobile malware detection and can also be used by other researchers and developers to build techniques for a variety of software engineering tasks, including automated program testing, repair, comprehension, and evolution.“

”Dynamic slicing was already extensively studied in the literature.” Khaled says. “However, we found the state-of-the-art in slicing Android apps was far from perfect. MANDOLINE introduces a highly accurate and efficient slicing tool.  We also contribute a benchmark with manually marked ground-truth to evaluate dynamic slicing for Android – the first of its kind.”

“I’m thankful to my co-authors for the productive collaboration and to the ICST community for this recognition.” Dr. Rubin adds. “I hope this work will facilitate additional research in the area of mobile analysis.”

Find out more about Khaled Ahmed, Dr. Mieszko Lis, and Dr. Julia Rubin.

Read “MANDOLINE: Dynamic Slicing of Android Applications with Trace-Based Alias Analysis” here.