# Mobile-App Analysis and Instrumentation Techniques Reimagined with DECREE

## TL;DR

DECREE is an infrastructure that enhances the reproducibility, reusability, and comparability of mobile app analysis and instrumentation techniques, aiming to improve research practices and practical adoption.

## Contribution

It introduces DECREE, a modular infrastructure that standardizes evaluation, facilitates discovery, and simplifies replication of mobile app analysis tools.

## Key findings

- DECREE enables reproducible evaluation of techniques.
- DECREE supports easy discovery and reuse of solutions.
- DECREE facilitates replication studies and comparison.

## Abstract

A large number of mobile-app analysis and instrumentation techniques have emerged in the past decade. However, those techniques' components are difficult to extract and reuse outside their original tools, their evaluation results are hard to reproduce, and the tools themselves are hard to compare. This paper introduces DECREE, an infrastructure intended to guide such techniques to be reproducible, practical, reusable, and easy to adopt in practice. DECREE allows researchers and developers to easily discover existing solutions to their needs, enables unbiased and reproducible evaluation, and supports easy construction and execution of replication studies. The paper describes DECREE's three modules and its potential to fundamentally alter how research is conducted in this area.