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Tooling and Language Support for Robust and Easy Network Programming of Mobile Applications.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,手稿 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Tooling and Language Support for Robust and Easy Network Programming of Mobile Applications./
作者:	Jin, Xinxin.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (118 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-12B(E).
標題:	Computer science. -
電子資源:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355066869

Tooling and Language Support for Robust and Easy Network Programming of Mobile Applications.
Jin, Xinxin.

Tooling and Language Support for Robust and Easy Network Programming of Mobile Applications. - 1 online resource (118 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

Most of today's mobile apps rely on the underlying networks to deliver key functions such as web browsing, file synchronization, and social networking. Compared to desktop-based networks, mobile networks are much more dynamic with frequent connectivity disruptions, network type switches, and quality changes, posing unique programming challenges for mobile app developers.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355066869Subjects--Topical Terms:

573171
Computer science.
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554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a As revealed in this thesis, many mobile app developers fail to handle these intermittent network conditions in the mobile network programming. Consequently, network programming defects (NPDs) are pervasive in mobile apps, causing bad user experiences such as crashes, data loss, etc. Despite the development of network libraries in the hope of lifting the developers' burden by providing flexible fault-tolerant APIs, we observe that many app developers often ignore such APIs or lack the capability to use them correctly and therefore still introduce NPDs.
520 $a In this thesis we make three contributions towards robust network programming for mobile apps. In the beginning, we study the characteristics of 90 real-world NPDs in Android apps towards a deep understanding of their impacts, root causes, and code patterns. This study exposes the common mistakes and pitfalls made by app developers when dealing with intermittent network. It also reflects that NPDs are pervasive despite the availability of fault-tolerant API from third-party network libraries.
520 $a Driven by the study, we build NChecker, a practical tool to detect NPDs by statically analyzing Android app binaries. NChecker has been applied to hundreds of real Android apps and detected 4180 NPDs from 285 randomly-selected apps with a 94+% accuracy. Shockingly, NChecker detects network bugs in 99% of the evaluated apps. Our further analysis of these defects reveals the common mistakes of app developers in working with the existing network libraries' abstractions, which provide insights for improving the usability of mobile network libraries.
520 $a Besides NPD detection, a more fundamental way to eliminate NPDs is to provide developers easy-to-use interfaces for network programmings. We argue that the difficulty of avoiding NPDs can be mitigated through an annotation language that allows developers to declaratively state desired and actual properties of the application, largely without reference to fault-tolerant concepts, much less implementation. A pre- compiler can process these annotations, replacing calls to standard networking libraries with customized calls to a specialized library that enhances the reliability. The last component of the thesis presents ANEL, a declarative language and middleware for Android that enables non-experts. We demonstrate the expressiveness and practicability of ANEL annotations through cases studies on real-world networked mobile apps. We also show that the ANEL middleware introduces negligible runtime performance overhead.
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