Tools and Data

AIBugHunter

AI-driven Software Vulnerability Analysis Tool That Helps Security Analysts Locate Vulnerable Code, Explain Vulnerability Types, and Suggest Vulnerability Repairs

Analysis of Privacy Regulations and User Concerns of Finance Mobile Applications

The An Analysis of Privacy Regulations and User Concerns of Finance Mobile Applications repository includes: ReviewAnalysisCode (materials for RQ1), with folders for code (processing scripts) and reviews (classified data); WebToolPrototype (prototype files for RQ2); and Survey_Results.xlsx (user survey responses).

Androi18n

Androi18n automates the internationalisation process by learning from the translation patterns found in existing Android apps. Our experimental results demonstrate that Androi18n not only outperforms current methods but also delivers reliable and consistent translations across various languages.

AndroSEA

An automatic tool that identifies and characterises SEMs, often missed by APIs, across ten Android releases.

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AndroZooOpen

AndroZooOpen is a growing collection of Open-Source Android Applications collected from several sources, including Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket. It currently contains 77,406 different projects. We provide this dataset to contribute to ongoing research efforts, as well as to enable new potential research topics on Android Apps.

APIMatchmaker

Android developers are often faced with the need to learn how to use different APIs suitable for their projects. APIMatchmaker has been created by learning directly from similar real-world Android apps. A project by Yanjie Zhao

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Artifacts for Characterising Human Aspects in Reviews of COVID-19

To better understand how human aspects can impact the use of software, this work presents an empirical study focusing on app reviews of COVID-19 contact tracing apps.

BiDaML

Visual languages for supporting big data analytics.

Code2Que

HumaniSE Lab PhD student, Zhipeng Gao has designed a tool called 'Code2Que' for developers seeking answers to their program-related questions in Stack Overflow.

Creating software that works for everyone

Learn about creating software that can be used by everyone and download our activity worksheet.

DefectChecker

DefectChecker, created by Jiachi Chen, is a symbolic execution-based approach and tool to detect eight contract defects by analysing smart contracts bytecode on Ethereum. We verify the performance of DefectChecker by applying it to an open-source dataset.

Defects-Definition

Defects-Definition, created by Jiachi Chen, defines 20 kinds of contract defects. We manually identified our defined contract defects in 587 real world smart contract and publicly released our dataset.

Detecting values-violating defects in source code (mobile apps)

We are working on building a new taxonomy for mobile app human values, characterising a mobile app model with human values for its target end-users, techniques for detecting values-violating defects in the target mobile apps, and providing recommendations and fixes for these values-violating defects.

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Does Domain Change the Opinion of Individuals on Human Values?

The elicitation of end-users' human values - such as freedom, honesty, transparency, etc. - is important in the development of software systems. This is the replication package for the ESEM2021 paper.

DroidRA

DroidRA reduces the resolution of reflective calls to a composite constant propagation problem and then leverages the COAL solver to infer the values of reflection targets. After that, it automatically instruments the app to replace reflective calls with their corresponding Java calls in a traditional paradigm.

DynaMO

DynaMO effectively uses optimisation search strategies, which adaptively target different parts of the program to quickly narrow down likely fault sources. This makes DynaMO especially valuable in large, complex codebases where traditional static or coverage-based methods struggle.

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EAAER: Emerging Apps Accessibility Evaluator and Recommender Tool

The tool prompts developers to provide various characteristics of their planned apps and utilises their input to generate evidence-based recommendations. These recommendations aim to ensure that their apps will be accessible to all types of users, promoting inclusivity.

EI Productivity Goals

The ReplicationPackageEIProductivityGoals repository supports replicating findings from the IEEE TSE paper, Supporting Emotional Intelligence, Productivity, and Team Goals in Requirements Changes. It includes two pre-interview questionnaires and a survey questionnaire. Researchers are encouraged to replicate the study and share results via email (contact in the paper).

Emotimonitor User Evaluation

Testing and evaluation approach and feedback forms of Emotimonitor.

Emotional Roller Coaster

The Emotional Roller Coaster of Responding to Requirements Changes in Software Engineering - Replication Package repository used a mixed-methods approach with statistical analysis, the Job-related Affective Well-being Scale (JAWS), and Socio-Technical Grounded Theory (STGT4DA) for data analysis. The repository includes participant demographics and the survey questionnaire. Researchers are invited to replicate the study and share results via email (contact in the paper).

EMSE Maintenance

We conducted a systematic literature review to analyse 131 smart contract related research papers published from 2014 to 2020. We also performed an online survey of smart contract developers on Github to validate our findings and received 165 useful responses. A project by Jiachi Chen

Enablers and Barriers of Empathy in Software Developer and User Interactions: A Mixed Methods Case Study (Supplementary Information Package)

This is the supplementary information package of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology paper titled "Enablers and Barriers of Empathy in Software Developer and User Interactions: A Mixed Methods Case Study" authored by Hashini Gunatilake, John Grundy, Rashina Hoda, and Ingo Mueller. The study employed a mixed-methods approach, using Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for data analysis (STGT4DA) and Statistical Analysis of the empathy test: Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy.

Extending iStar for modelling human aspects

Current software tools lack in-depth elicitation and understanding of these requirements during design and modelling. This can create ineffective and hard-to-use software. We propose an approach for using personas and contexts to model human-centric aspects of the software in goal models.

GitHubInclusifier

This repository contains the source code and evaluation data for GitHubInclusifier, which is a web application designed to encourage the use of inclusive language in GitHub Repositories, and similarly to discourage the use of non-inclusive language.

HiSenDroid

Security of Android devices is now paramount, given their wide adoption among consumers. As researchers develop tools for statically or dynamically detecting suspicious apps, malware writers regularly update their attack mechanisms to hide malicious behavior implementation. HiSenDroid helps security analysts in validating potential sensitive data operations, which would be previously unnoticed.

How developers discuss human centric issues in GitHub

A replication package including a manually analysed dataset of a random sample of 1,200 app reviews and 1,200 issue comments from 12 diverse projects that exist on both Google App Store and GitHub, the results of our machine learning and deep learning approaches, our survey questions and raw responses from app developers to the survey.

Human-centric discussions in COVID 19 apps

The Human-centric Discussions in COVID-19 Apps repository supports understanding human aspects in app use. Through 2,611 COVID-19 app reviews, it explores age, gender, language, and more. We identified 716 human-centric reviews across nine categories, revealing key user needs. Resources include the dataset, filtering keywords, and codebooks for analysing human aspects and review types.

Icon2Code

A prototype tool, Icon2Code, targeted to help app developers more quickly implement the callback functions of complex Android GUI components by recommending code implementations learned from similar GUI components from other apps.A project by Yanjie Zhao

iContinuum

iContinuum is an emulation toolkit designed for intent-based edge-to-cloud computing platforms. iContinuum allows developers and users to easily set up a testing environment for their applications, supporting comprehensive experimentation and performance evaluation.

JUnitTestGen Tool

The official Android framework has only provided test cases for less than 30% of its APIs. Such a poor test case coverage has led to many compatibility issues that can cause apps to crash at runtime on specific Android devices. This results in poor user experiences for both apps and the Android ecosystem. We developed a novel prototype tool, JUnitTestGen, to fill this gap by mining existing Android API usage to generate unit test cases.

Lightweight Crowdsourced Testing - LAZYCOW - Client side

Client side - a lightweight prototype tool, LAZYCOW, which leverages crowdsourced testing techniques to automatically dispatch and execute test cases on Android devices for identifying fragmentation-introduced compatibility issues.

Lightweight Crowdsourced Testing - LAZYCOW - Remote Test

Server side - a lightweight prototype tool, LAZYCOW, which leverages crowdsourced testing techniques to automatically dispatch and execute test cases on Android devices for identifying fragmentation-introduced compatibility issues.

LLM4SE SLR

This repository builds on "Large Language Models for Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review," and provides essential information for LLM4SE research. It includes a curated collection of papers, datasets, tutorials, and other resources focused on the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Software Engineering (SE). This collection aims to bridge gaps in understanding how LLMs can optimise SE processes, with insights from over 395 research papers. It addresses key questions on LLM use, data strategies, performance optimisation, and successful SE task applications.

MathLatexEdit

MathLatexEdit implements a deep learning-based approach including two encoder-decoder models fort textual and visual LaTeX edit recommendation.

MentalTAC: Mental Health Triage App for Clinician

Leaf (prototype), a multi-platform mobile app tool to ease mental health workers / nurses to perform triage when a mental health patient is admitted to the emergency department. All information recorded can be easily turnover to the next shift.

Mobile Apps Honesty Violations

The ReplicationPackage MobileAppsHonestyViolations repository supports replication of the developer experience section in the Empirical Software Engineering paper, Automated Detection, Categorization, and Developer Experience with Honesty Violations in Mobile Apps. It includes a survey questionnaire, pre-interview questionnaire, and interview guide. Researchers are encouraged to replicate and share results via email (contact in the paper).

Requirements Changes Taxonomy

The Taxonomy-of-RCs-Replication-Package repository supports replication of the IEEE TSE paper, A Faceted Taxonomy of Requirements Changes in Agile Contexts, by Madampe, Hoda, and Grundy. Using a mixed-methods approach (interviews, literature review, and practitioner survey), it includes a pre-interview questionnaire, interview guide, survey questionnaire, and survey data (raw and analysed quantitative). Researchers are encouraged to replicate and share results via email (contact in the paper).

ReuNify

A Step Towards Whole Program Analysis for React Native Android Apps. React Native is a widely-used open-source framework that facilitates the development of cross-platform mobile apps. The framework enables JavaScript code to interact with native-side code, such as Objective-C/Swift for iOS and Java/Kotlin for Android, via a communication mechanism provided by React Native.

SEEKER

We designed and implemented a novel prototype tool, Seeker, that extends the famous FlowDroid tool to detect sensor-based data leaks in Android apps. Seeker conducts sensor-focused static taint analyses directly on the Android apps' bytecode and reports not only sensor-triggered privacy leaks but also the sensor types involved in the leaks.

Self Destruct

Selfdestruct, created by Jiachi Chen, conducts an empirical study of Selfdestruct function. By analysing the difference between the predecessor contracts and their successor contracts, we found five reasons that led to the death of the contracts.

SERA - The Software Engineering Research Assistant tool

SERA (Software Engineering Research Assistant) is a powerful tool designed to support human-centric software engineering researchers. It is here to help you better understand the diverse cohorts they are studying, and to share best practices for conducting research with various user cohorts.

SMARTEMBED

Zhipeng Gao has developed a web service tool called 'SMARTEMBED' that finds repetitive contract code and code-related bugs in smart contracts.

Smart Parking App

Finding a parking space can be very stressful and time consuming. A variety of different vehicle parking applications have been developed but many fail to support diverse end-users. We captured diverse human-centric issues from user reviews and literature, and then created personas that encompass a wide representative range of parking app user groups. Using these personas, user stories were created, categorised and parking app tasks prioritised. We used these to develop a prototype new “smart parking app”.

SOChecker

Designed specifically to detect potential vulnerabilities in incomplete SO smart contract snippets. SOChecker uses a fine-tuned Llama2 model for code completion, followed by symbolic execution methods to identify vulnerabilities.

SolMigrator

SolMigrator is an automated tool designed to make smart contract testing more efficient and reliable. Writing test cases for smart contracts is time consuming and error prone, but SolMigrator addresses this challenge by extracting test cases from real-world on-chain contract interactions and migrating them to new contracts with similar functionality. By leveraging real-world usage patterns, it reduces manual effort while improving test coverage and accuracy. With 96.3% precision and 93.6% accuracy, SolMigrator helps developers ensure the functional correctness of their smart contracts while streamlining the testing process.

TDCleaner

TDCleaner (TODO Comment Cleaner) is a tool for automatically detecting obsolete TODO comments in software repositories.

The Impact of Human Aspects on the Interactions Between Software Developers and End-Users in Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review (SupplementaryInfoPackage-SLRDevUserHumanAspects)

This is the supplementary information package of the Information and Software Technology paper titled "The Impact of Human Aspects on the Interactions Between Software Developers and End-Users in Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review" authored by Hashini Gunatilake, John Grundy, Rashina Hoda, and Ingo Mueller. We performed a comprehensive search in six digital databases, and an exhaustive backward and forward snowballing process. This paper reports the analysis of 46 primary studies.

The Role of Empathy in Software Engineering - A Socio-Technical Grounded Theory (SupplementaryInfoPackage-6CsStudy)

This is the supplementary information package of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology paper titled "The Role of Empathy in Software Engineering - A Socio-Technical Grounded Theory" authored by Hashini Gunatilake, John Grundy, Rashina Hoda, and Ingo Mueller. We developed a comprehensive theory of empathy in software engineering, framed by the Glaser’s 6Cs model and Strauss and Corbin’s paradigm model. Our findings address the context, conditions, causes, and consequences of empathy, as well as its absence. We also identified strategies (contingencies) for enhancing empathy and explored the relationships (covariances) between these categories.

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toolKitAdaptiveUI

A framework using Adaptive Widgets using Flutter. Using this framework, a site will adapt it’s UI based on users preferences.