Characterizing and detecting resource leaks in Android applications

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	Characterizing and detecting resource leaks in Android applications
	Guo, Chaorong (1); Zhang, Jian (1); Yan, Jun (2); Zhang, Zhiqiang (1); Zhang, Yanli (1)
	2013
会议名称	2013 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2013
页码	389-398
会议日期	November 11, 2013 - November 15, 2013
会议地点	Palo Alto, CA, United states
收录类别	CPCI ; EI
出版地	IEEE Computer Society, 2001 L Street N.W., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036-4928, United States
ISSN	1527-1366
ISBN	9781479902156
部门归属	(1) State Key Laboratory of Computer Science Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; (2) Technology Center of Software Engineering Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; (3) University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
摘要	Android phones come with a host of hardware components embedded in them, such as Camera, Media Player and Sensor. Most of these components are exclusive resources or resources consuming more memory/energy than general. And they should be explicitly released by developers. Missing release operations of these resources might cause serious problems such as performance degradation or system crash. These kinds of defects are called resource leaks. This paper focuses on resource leak problems in Android apps, and presents our lightweight static analysis tool called Relda, which can automatically analyze an application's resource operations and locate the resource leaks. We propose an automatic method for detecting resource leaks based on a modified Function Call Graph, which handles the features of event-driven mobile programming by analyzing the callbacks defined in Android framework. Our experimental data shows that Relda is effective in detecting resource leaks in real Android apps. © 2013 IEEE.; Android phones come with a host of hardware components embedded in them, such as Camera, Media Player and Sensor. Most of these components are exclusive resources or resources consuming more memory/energy than general. And they should be explicitly released by developers. Missing release operations of these resources might cause serious problems such as performance degradation or system crash. These kinds of defects are called resource leaks. This paper focuses on resource leak problems in Android apps, and presents our lightweight static analysis tool called Relda, which can automatically analyze an application's resource operations and locate the resource leaks. We propose an automatic method for detecting resource leaks based on a modified Function Call Graph, which handles the features of event-driven mobile programming by analyzing the callbacks defined in Android framework. Our experimental data shows that Relda is effective in detecting resource leaks in real Android apps. © 2013 IEEE.
关键词	Android Apps Resource Leak Static Analysis
语种	英语
内容类型	会议论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/16544
专题	中国科学院软件研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Guo, Chaorong ,Zhang, Jian ,Yan, Jun ,et al. Characterizing and detecting resource leaks in Android applications[C]. IEEE Computer Society, 2001 L Street N.W., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036-4928, United States,2013:389-398.