Precise interprocedural dataflow analysis via graph reachability
POPL '95 Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Fast static analysis of C++ virtual function calls
Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Call graph construction in object-oriented languages
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Eraser: a dynamic data race detector for multi-threaded programs
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Helping users avoid bugs in GUI applications
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Effective static race detection for Java
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Using GUI Run-Time State as Feedback to Generate Test Cases
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Repairing GUI Test Suites Using a Genetic Algorithm
ICST '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Third International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation
Taming reflection: Aiding static analysis in the presence of reflection and custom class loaders
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Building and using pluggable type-checkers
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Persuasive prediction of concurrency access anomalies
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Combined static and dynamic automated test generation
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Automated GUI refactoring and test script repair
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on End-to-End Test Script Engineering
Improved multithreaded unit testing
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
Static analysis of Android programs
CADE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Automated deduction
GUI Interaction Testing: Incorporating Event Context
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
APLAS'05 Proceedings of the Third Asian conference on Programming Languages and Systems
Symstra: a framework for generating object-oriented unit tests using symbolic execution
TACAS'05 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Insights into layout patterns of mobile user interfaces by an automatic analysis of android apps
Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
JavaUI: effects for controlling UI object access
ECOOP'13 Proceedings of the 27th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Static Reference Analysis for GUI Objects in Android Software
Proceedings of Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
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To keep a Graphical User Interface (GUI) responsive and active, a GUI application often has a main UI thread (or event dispatching thread) and spawns separate threads to handle lengthy operations in the background, such as expensive computation, I/O tasks, and network requests. Many GUI frameworks require all GUI objects to be accessed exclusively by the UI thread. If a GUI object is accessed from a non-UI thread, an invalid thread access error occurs and the whole application may abort. This paper presents a general technique to find such invalid thread access errors in multithreaded GUI applications. We formulate finding invalid thread access errors as a call graph reachability problem with thread spawning as the sources and GUI object accessing as the sinks. Standard call graph construction algorithms fail to build a good call graph for some modern GUI applications, because of heavy use of reflection. Thus, our technique builds reflection-aware call graphs. We implemented our technique and instantiated it for four popular Java GUI frameworks: SWT, the Eclipse plugin framework, Swing, and Android. In an evaluation on 9 programs comprising 89273 LOC, our technique found 5 previously-known errors and 5 new ones.