UCI - Informatics Department

INF 219 - Software Environments

Instructor

Office: ICS2 208

Logistics

Room: DBH 1427

Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 PM-1:50 PM

Description

Catalogue description: Study of the requirements, concepts, and architectures of comprehensive, integrated, software development and maintenance environments. Major topics include process support, object management, communication, interoperability, measurement, analysis, and user interfaces in the environment context.

Structure

Students will (i) read research papers and engage in active discussions about the topics; (ii) present papers they've read to the class; and (iii) work on a research project and write a technical, research paper about the project.

Project

Each student will perform a practical research project. The research project must result in a tangible technology, the form of which will be discussed in class.

Grades

All students enrolled in the course will earn a letter grade based upon: (a) their demonstrated understanding of the class topics, (b) class attendance and participation, (c) the critical opinions, questions, and challenges shared with the class on the discussions, (d) the feedback provided to their peers, and (e) the research project and paper.

Schedule

The schedule and assignments below are tentative and subject to change.

DATE	DESCRIPTION	DELIVERABLES
1. Tu 3/29	Welcome
2. Th 3/31	Introduction to Research and Software Environments Easterbrook, Singer, Storey, and Damian. Selecting Empirical Methods for Software Engineering Research Shaw. Writing good software engineering research papers: minitutorial
3. Tu 4/5	Integrated Development Environments des Rivieres & Wiegand. Eclipse: A Platform for Integrating Development Tools Murphy, Kersten, and Findlater. How Are Java Software Developers Using the Eclipse IDE?
4. Th 4/7	Mobile Software Testing Choudhary, Gorla, and Orso. Automated Test Input Generation for Android: Are We There Yet? Mahmood, Mirzaei, and Malek. Evodroid: Segmented evolutionary testing of android apps Machiry, Yahiliani, and Naik. Dynodroid: An input generation system for Android apps
5. Tu 4/12	Mobile Vulnerability Analysis Chin, Felt, Greenwood, and Wagner. Analyzing inter-application communication in Android Enck, Octeau, McDaniel, and Chaudhuri. A Study of Android Application Security Bagheri, Sadeghi, Garcia, and Malek. Covert: Compositional analysis of android inter-app permission leakage
6. Th 4/14	Security Testing Avgerinos, Cha, Hao, and Brumley. AEG: Automatic Exploit Generation Cha, Avgerinos, Rebert, and Brumley. Unleashing Mayhem on Binary Code Wong and Lie. IntelliDroid: A Targeted Input Generator for the Dynamic Analysis of Android Malware
7. Tu 4/19	Mobile Malware Analysis I Zhou and Jiang. Dissecting android malware: Characterization and evolution Arp, Spreizenbarth, Hubner, Gascon, and Rieck. DREBIN: Effective and Explainable Detection of Android Malware in Your Pocket.
8. Th 4/21	Project Introduction
9. Tu 4/26	Mobile Malware Analysis II Enck et al. TaintDroid: an information-flow tracking system for realtime privacy monitoring on smartphones Yan and Yin. DroidScope: Seamlessly Reconstructing the OS and Dalvik Semantic Views for Dynamic Android Malware Analysis Tam, Khan, Fattori, and Cavallaro. CopperDroid: Automatic Reconstruction of Android Malware Behaviors
10. Th 4/28	Project Discussion	Project Proposal Due
11. Tu 5/3	Architectural Drift and Erosion Ducasse and Pollet. Software architecture reconstruction: A process-oriented taxonomy Garcia, Krka, Mattmann, and Medvidovic. Obtaining ground-truth software architectures
12. Th 5/5	Project Discussion
13. Tu 5/10	Mobile Energy Analysis Pathak, Hu, and Zhang. Where is the energy spent inside my app?: fine grained energy accounting on smartphones with eprof Banarjee, Chong, Chattopadhyay, and Roychoudhury. Detecting energy bugs and hotspots in mobile apps
14. Th 5/12	Project Preliminary Presentations
15. Tu 5/17	Classes Cancelled for ICSE 2016
16. Th 5/19	Classes Cancelled for ICSE 2016
17. Tu 5/24	Project Discussion
18. Th 5/26	Open Topics
19. Tu 5/31	Final Presentations	Full paper draft
20. Th 6/2	Final Presentations
21. Tu 6/7	NO CLASS - Finals Week
22. Th 6/9	NO CLASS - Finals Week	Final paper version due

Policies

Disabilities: Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact the instructor and the Disability Services Center as soon as possible.

Copyright: The documents made available aim to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work on a non-commercial basis and are for the sole use of students enrolled in this class. Copyright and all rights therein are maintained by the authors or by other copyright holders. It is understood that all persons copying the files will adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. These works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

Cheating. The UCI academic honesty policy applies. Content copied from the literature needs to be quoted and the source must be given.