{"title":"BehaviorDroid: Monitoring Android Applications","authors":"Alexis Silva, J. Simmonds","doi":"10.1145/2897073.2897121","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Mobile app developers declare permissions, but these do not guarantee that apps will behave as expected. Existing work focuses on checking predefined app properties, e.g., clone detection and API analysis. We propose BehaviorDroid, a framework for monitoring general app properties at runtime. Properties are currently specified using automata, describing desired and unwanted interactions between an app and phone resources. BehaviorDroid is a robust, extensible and configurable framework that can simultaneously monitor multiple apps and properties, showing reasonable CPU and memory usage during execution. Initial experiments show that we can improve memory usage by combining automata that have similar alphabets.","PeriodicalId":296509,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)","volume":"375 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2897073.2897121","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Mobile app developers declare permissions, but these do not guarantee that apps will behave as expected. Existing work focuses on checking predefined app properties, e.g., clone detection and API analysis. We propose BehaviorDroid, a framework for monitoring general app properties at runtime. Properties are currently specified using automata, describing desired and unwanted interactions between an app and phone resources. BehaviorDroid is a robust, extensible and configurable framework that can simultaneously monitor multiple apps and properties, showing reasonable CPU and memory usage during execution. Initial experiments show that we can improve memory usage by combining automata that have similar alphabets.