Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2012

Abstract

High-quality test data that is useful for effective testing is often available on users’ site. However, sharing data owned by users with software vendors may raise privacy concerns. Techniques are needed to enable data sharing among data owners and the vendors without leaking data privacy. Evolving programs bring additional challenges because data may be shared multiple times for every version of a program. When multiple versions of the data are cross-referenced, private information could be inferred. Although there are studies addressing the privacy issue of data sharing for testing and debugging, little work has explicitly addressed the challenges when programs evolve. In this paper, we examine kb-anonymity that is recently proposed for anonymizing data for a single version of a program, and identify a potential privacy risk if it is repeatedly applied for evolving programs. We propose kbe-anonymity to address the insufficiencies of kb-anonymity and evaluate our model on three Java programs. We demonstrate that kbe -anonymity can successfully address the potential risk of kb-anonymity, maintain sufficient path coverage for testing, and be as efficient as kb-anonymity.

Keywords

k-anonymity, behavior preservation, privacy preservation, testing and debugging

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

ASE 2012: Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Essen, Germany, September 3-7, 2012

First Page

262

Last Page

265

ISBN

9781450312042

Identifier

10.1145/2351676.2351718

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

http://doi.org/10.1145/2351676.2351718

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