Conference Papers (Computing Science)

2022

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

Android byte-code transformations are used to optimize applications (apps) in terms of run-time performance and size. But do they affect the energy consumption during this process? If they do, can we employ them to reduce an app’s energy consumption? Given that most existing energy optimization...

2013

Alipour, A., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E

Bug-tracking and issue-tracking systems tend to be populated with bugs, issues, or tickets written by a wide variety of bug reporters, with different levels of training and knowledge about the system being discussed. Many bug reporters lack the skills, vocabulary, knowledge, or time to...

2014-01-01

Chenlei, Z., Hindle, Abram

With the advent of mobile computing, the responsibility of software developers to update and ship energy efficient applications has never been more pronounced. Green mining attempts to address this responsibility by examining the impact of software change on energy consumption. One problem with...

2013

Tsantalis, N., Guana, V., Stroulia, E., Hindle, Abram

In this paper we present an empirical study on the refactoring activity in three well-known projects. We have studied five research questions that explore the different types of refactorings applied to different types of sources, the individual contribution of team members on refactoring...

2011

Posnett, D., Hindle, Abram, Devanbu, P.

Software readability is a property that influences how easily a given piece of code can be read and understood. Since readability can affect maintainability, quality, etc., programmers are very concerned about the readability of code. If automatic readability checkers could be built, they could...

2015

Chowdhury, S.A., Kumar, L.N., Imam, M.T., Jabbar, M.S., Sapra, V., Aggarwal, K., Hindle, Abram, Greiner, R.

The first challenge to develop an energy efficient application is to measure the application's energy consumption, which requires sophisticated hardware infrastructure and significant amounts of developers' time. Models and tools that estimate software energy consumption can save developers time,...

2015

Burlet, G., Hindle, Abram

Computer musicians are a community of end-user programmers who often use visual programming languages such as Max/MSP or Pure Data to realize their musical compositions. This research study conducts a multifaceted analysis of the software development practices of computer musicians when...

2023

Sun, W., Iwuchukwu, S., Bangash, A.A., Hindle, Abram

The value of teamwork is being recognized by project owners, resulting in an increased acknowledgement of collaboration among developers in software engineering. A good understanding of how developers work together could positively impact software development practices. In this paper, we...

2011

Hindle, Abram, Ernst, N., Godfrey, M.M., Mylopoulos, J.

Researchers have employed a variety of techniques to extract underlying topics that relate to software development artifacts. Typically, these techniques use semi-unsupervised machine-learning algorithms to suggest candidate word-lists. However, word-lists are difficult to interpret in the...

2018

Shimagaki, J., Kamei, Y., Ubayashi, N., Hindle, Abram

Background: An Android smartphone is an ecosystem of applications, drivers, operating system components, and assets. The volume of the software is large and the number of test cases needed to cover the functionality of an Android system is substantial. Enormous effort has been already taken to...