Journal Articles (Computing Science)

2018

Chowdhury, S., Borle, S., Romansky, S., Hindle, Abram

Software energy consumption is a performance related non-functional requirement that complicates building software on mobile devices today. Energy hogging applications (apps) are a liability to both the end-user and software developer. Measuring software energy consumption is non-trivial,...

2020

Sahar, H., Hindle, Abram, Bezemer, C.P.

Informal communication channels like mailing lists, IRC and instant messaging play a vital role in open source software development by facilitating communication within geographically diverse project teams e.g., to discuss issue reports to facilitate the bug-fixing process. More recently, chat...

2018

Santos, E.A., McLean, C., Solinas, C., Hindle, Abram

Context: Virtual machines provide isolation of services at the cost of hypervisors and more resource usage. This spurred the growth of systems like Docker that enable single hosts to isolate several applications, similar to VMs, within a low-overhead abstraction called containers. Motivation:...

2017

Burlet, G., Hindle, Abram

Music transcription involves the transformation of an audio recording to common music notation, colloquially referred to as sheet music. Manually transcribing audio recordings is a difficult and time-consuming process, even for experienced musicians. In response, several algorithms have been...

2016

Hindle, Abram, Barr, E.T., Su, Z., Devanbu, P.T., Gabel, M.

Natural languages like English are rich, complex, and powerful. The highly creative and graceful use of languages like English and Tamil, by masters like Shakespeare and Avvaiyar, can certainly delight and inspire. But in practice, given cognitive constraints and the exigencies of daily life,...

2020

Bangash, A., Sahar, H., Hindle, Abram, Ali, K.

Researchers in empirical software engineering often make claims based on observable data such as defect reports. Unfortunately, in many cases, these claims are generalized beyond the data sets that have been evaluated. Will the researcher’s conclusions hold a year from now for the same software...

2018

Hindle, Abram, Onuckzo, C.

Bug deduplication or duplicate bug report detection is a hot topic in software engineering information retrieval research, but it is often not deployed. Typically to de-duplicate bug reports developers rely upon the search capabilities of the bug report software they employ, such as Bugzilla,...

2012

Davies, J., German, D.M., Godfrey, M.W., Hindle, Abram

Deployed software systems are typically composed of many pieces, not all of which may have been created by the main development team. Often, the provenance of included components—such as external libraries or cloned source code—is not clearly stated, and this uncertainty can introduce technical...

2014

Chenlei, Z., Hindle, Abram, German, D.M

Hardware and software engineers are instrumental in developing energy-efficient mobile systems. Unfortunately, the last mile of energy efficiency relies on end users' choices and requirements. Imagine a user who has no power outlet access and must remain productive on the laptop's battery. How...

2023

Sun, W., Kalmady, S.V., Sepehrvand, N., Salimi, A., Nademi, Y., Bainey, K., Ezekowitz, J.A., Greiner, R., Hindle, Abram, McAlister, F.A., Sandhu, R.K., Kaul, P.

The feasibility and value of linking electrocardiogram (ECG) data to longitudinal population-level administrative health data to facilitate the development of a learning healthcare system has not been fully explored. We developed ECG-based machine learning models to predict risk of mortality...