Coverage-based fault-localization techniques find the fault-related positions in programs by
comparing the execution statistics of passed executions and failed executions. They assess …

Many large-scale Java applications suffer from runtime bloat. They execute large volumes of
methods, and create many temporary objects, all to execute relatively simple operations …

Poor data locality hurts an application's performance. While compiler-based techniques
have been proposed to improve data locality, they depend on heuristics, which can …

A managed runtime environment, such as the Java virtual machine, is non-trivial to
benchmark. Java performance is affected in various complex ways by the application and its …

The number of smartphones shipped in 2014 will be four times larger than the number of
PCs. Compared to PCs, smartphones have limited computing resources, and smartphone …

Software has spent the bounty of Moore's law by solving harder problems and exploiting
abstractions, such as high-level languages, virtual machine technology, binary rewriting …

Software call stack is a sequence of function calls that are executed during the runtime of a
software program. Software call stack analysis (CSA) is widely used in software engineering …

Traditional debugging and fault localization methods have addressed localization of sources
of software failures. While these methods are effective in general, they are not tailored to an …

In recent years, dynamic binary translation has emerged as an important tool with many real
world applications. Besides supporting legacy binary code and ISA virtualization, it enables …

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is attracting attention from both research and industry,
as illustrated by the ever-growing popularity of AspectJ, the de facto standard AOP extension …