Despite recent increase in research on improvement of non-functional properties of
software, such as energy usage or program size, there is a lack of standard benchmarks for …

Software developers are increasingly required to write big data code. However, they find big
data software development challenging. To help these developers it is necessary to …

Software developers often repeat the same code changes within a project or across different
projects. These repetitive changes are known as “code change patterns”(CPATs) …

Machine Learning (ML), including Deep Learning (DL), systems, ie, those with ML
capabilities, are pervasive in today's data-driven society. Such systems are complex; they …

While many mainstream languages such as Java, Python, and C# increasingly incorporate
functional APIs to simplify programming and improve parallelization/performance, there are …

Background: The Java programming language version eighth introduced a number of
features that encourage the functional style of programming, including the support for …

Object serialization and deserialization are widely used for storing and preserving objects in
files, memory, or database as well as for transporting them across machines, enabling …

Extract local variable is a well-known and widely used refactoring. It is frequently employed
to replace one or more occurrences of a complex expression with simple accesses to a …

The JavaScript ecosystem provides equivalent synchronous and asynchronous Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) for many commonly used I/O operations. Synchronous APIs …

Actor concurrency is becoming increasingly important in the development of real-world
software systems. Although actor concurrency may be less susceptible to some …