Jicer: Slicing Android Apps for Cooperative Analysis

Abstract

Slicing allows to identify which program parts influence or are influenced by a certain statement of a program. Hence, if we know which statement is potentially causing an issue we can slice accordingly to only inspect the slice while debugging. With Jicer, we proposed a slicer that can be used in a different context, namely cooperative Android app analysis. In combination with taint analysis tools, we employed Jicer to get more accurate results.