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2011

Godfrey, M., Davis, J., German, D., Hindle, Abram

Software clone detection has made substantial progress in the last 15 years, and software clone analysis is starting to provide real insight into how and why code clones are born, evolve, and sometimes die. In this position paper, we make the case that there is a more general problem lurking in...

2012

Guana, V., Rocha, F.P., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E.

In this paper we mine the Android bug tracker repository and study the characteristics of the architectural layers of the Android system. We have identified the locality of the Android bugs in the architectural layers of the its infrastructure, and analysed the bug lifetime patterns in each one...

2014

Hindle, Abram, Bird, C., Zimmermann, T., Nagappan, N.

Large organizations like Microsoft tend to rely on formal requirements documentation in order to specify and design the software products that they develop. These documents are meant to be tightly coupled with the actual implementation of the features they describe. In this paper we evaluate the...

2021

Sun, W., Kalmady, S.V., Salimi, A.S., Sepehrvand, N., Ly, E., Hindle, Abram, Greiner, R., Kaul, P.

Electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities are linked to cardiovascular diseases, but may also occur in other non-cardiovascular conditions such as mental, neurological, metabolic and infectious conditions. However, most of the recent success of deep learning (DL) based diagnostic predictions in...

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...

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...

2016

Hasan, S., King, Z., Hafiz, M., Sayagh, M., Adams, B., Hindle, Abram

We created detailed profiles of the energy consumed by common operations done on Java List, Map, and Set abstractions. The results show that the alternative data types for these abstractions differ significantly in terms of energy consumption depending on the operations. For example, an ArrayList...

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...

2011

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

There is a perception that when new features are added to a system that those added and modified parts of the source-code are more fault prone. Many have argued that new code and new features are defect prone due to immaturity, lack of testing, as well unstable requirements. Unfortunately most...

2013

Hindle, Abram

Power consumption is becoming more and more important with the increased popularity of smart-phones, tablets and laptops. The threat of reducing a customer’s battery-life now hangs over the software developer, who now asks, “will this next change be the one that causes my software to drain a...