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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...
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An Empirical Study to Investigate Collaboration Among Developers in Open Source Software (OSS)
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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...
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2023
Bangash, A.A., Eng, K., Jamal, Q., Ali, K., Hindle, Abram
Smartphone application (app) developers measure the energy consumption of their apps to ensure that they do not consume excessive energy. However, existing techniques require developers to generate and execute test cases on expensive, sophisticated hardware. To address these challenges, we...
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2021
Bangash, A.A., Tiganov, D., Ali, K., Hindle, Abram
Several types of apps require accessing user location, including map navigation, food ordering, and fitness tracking apps. To access user location, app developers use frameworks that the underlying platform provides to them. For the iOS platform, the Core Location framework enables developers to...
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2023
Islam, A., Hewage, N.T., Bangash, A.A., Hindle, Abram
Software testing helps developers minimize bugs and errors in their code, improving the overall software quality. In 2013, Kochhar et al. analyzed 20,817 software projects in order to study how prevalent the practice of software testing is in open-source projects. They found that projects with...
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2019
Bangash, A.A., Sahar, H., Chowdhury, S., Wong, A.W., Hindle, Abram, Ali, K.
Machine learning, a branch of Artificial Intelligence, is now popular in software engineering community and is successfully used for problems like bug prediction, and software development effort estimation. Developers' understanding of machine learning, however, is not clear, and we require...