DroidLeaks Project

DroidLeaks: A Large Collection of Resource Leak Bugs in Real-World Android Apps

DroidLeaks features 292 diverse resource leak bugs in popular and large-scale open-source Android apps. For each bug, DroidLeaks provides links to:

the code repository of the app subject
the concerned resource class
the buggy code revision (and buggy file and method names)
the bug-fixing code revision (i.e., link to the patch)
the bug report or the corresponding pull request for patches (if located)

Quick download links: (1) F-Droid apps, (2) all bugs, (3) apks, (4) compilable apps, (5) python scripts to mine resource leak bugs from code repositories

Contact Yepang Liu (liuyp1 AT sustc DOT edu DOT cn) if you have problem accessing the above data or find any mistakes.

Example Bugs

Index	App name	Resource class	Fixing version	Buggy version	Source file	Buggy method	Bug report/pull request
1	K-9 Mail	java.io.FileInputStream	daeedc2222	39aa577651	Utility.java	move() @line 502	Pull 112
2	AnkiDroid	android.database.Cursor	d095337329	ff359989da	Sched.java	eta() @line 2585	Pull 275
3	AnkiDroid	android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase	4748c1af6e	f355183d84	Anki2Importer.java	run()	Issue 1501

Reference

Yepang Liu, Lili Wei, Chang Xu and Shing-Chi Cheung. DroidLeaks: Benchmarking Resource Leak Bugs for Android Applications. arXiv:1611.08079. [pdf][bibtex]

@INPROCEEDINGS{droidleaks,
  author = {Liu, Yepang and Wei, Lili and Xu, Chang and Cheung, Shing-Chi},
  title = {DroidLeaks: Benchmarking Resource Leak Bugs for Android Applications},
  booktitle = {eprint arXiv:1611.08079},
  year = 2016,
}

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