The current complexity of IoT systems and devices is a barrier to reach a healthy ecosystem,
mainly due to technological fragmentation and inherent heterogeneity. Meanwhile, the field …

Cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), supported by technologies such as
Docker, have shaped how many software systems are built and deployed. Previous …

Programming a smart home is an iterative process in which users configure and test the
automation during the in-situ experience with IoT space. However, current end-user …

The continuous spreading of the Internet-of-Things across application domains, aided by the
continuous growth on the number of devices and systems that are Internet-connected …

Container orchestration tools supporting infrastructure-as-code allow new forms of
collaboration between developers and operatives. Still, their text-based nature permits naive …

Refactoring software can be hard and time-consuming. Several refactoring tools assist
developers in reaching more readable and maintainable code. However, most of them are …

Refactoring helps improve the design of software systems, making them more
understandable, readable, maintainable, cleaner, and self-explanatory. Many refactoring …

Automated Program Repair (APR) is an area of research focused on the automatic
generation of bug-fixing patches. Current APR approaches present some limitations, namely …

Background Approaches to documenting the software patterns of a system can support
intentionally and manually documenting them or automatically extracting them from the …

Mobile device users have been growing in the last years but the limited battery life of these
devices is considered one of the major issues amongst users and programmers. Therefore …