Genetic improvement of software: a comprehensive survey

J Petke, SO Haraldsson, M Harman… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Genetic improvement (GI) uses automated search to find improved versions of existing
software. We present a comprehensive survey of this nascent field of research with a focus …

Energy efficiency: a new concern for application software developers

G Pinto, F Castor - Communications of the ACM, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Energy efficiency: a new concern for application software developers Page 1 68
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | DECEMBER 2017 | VOL. 60 | NO. 12 review articles THE …

A survey of the use of crowdsourcing in software engineering

K Mao, L Capra, M Harman, Y Jia - Journal of Systems and Software, 2017 - Elsevier
The term 'crowdsourcing'was initially introduced in 2006 to describe an emerging distributed
problem-solving model by online workers. Since then it has been widely studied and …

Ranking programming languages by energy efficiency

R Pereira, M Couto, F Ribeiro, R Rua, J Cunha… - Science of Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper compares a large set of programming languages regarding their efficiency,
including from an energetic point-of-view. Indeed, we seek to establish and analyze different …

Energy efficiency across programming languages: how do energy, time, and memory relate?

R Pereira, M Couto, F Ribeiro, R Rua, J Cunha… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a study of the runtime, memory usage and energy consumption of
twenty seven well-known software languages. We monitor the performance of such …

Achievements, open problems and challenges for search based software testing

M Harman, Y Jia, Y Zhang - 2015 IEEE 8th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Search Based Software Testing (SBST) formulates testing as an optimisation problem, which
can be attacked using computational search techniques from the field of Search Based …

An empirical study of practitioners' perspectives on green software engineering

I Manotas, C Bird, R Zhang, D Shepherd… - Proceedings of the 38th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The energy consumption of software is an increasing concern as the use of mobile
applications, embedded systems, and data center-based services expands. While research …

Detecting energy bugs and hotspots in mobile apps

A Banerjee, LK Chong, S Chattopadhyay… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Over the recent years, the popularity of smartphones has increased dramatically. This has
lead to a widespread availability of smartphone applications. Since smartphones operate on …

Energy profiles of java collections classes

S Hasan, Z King, M Hafiz, M Sayagh, B Adams… - Proceedings of the 38th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Performance issues and optimizations in javascript: an empirical study

M Selakovic, M Pradel - … of the 38th International Conference on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
As JavaScript is becoming increasingly popular, the performance of JavaScript programs is
crucial to ensure the responsiveness and energy-efficiency of thousands of programs. Yet …