As smartphones have become indispensable personal devices, the number of smartphone
users has increased dramatically over the last decade. These personal devices, which are …

Context Static analysis exploits techniques that parse program source code or bytecode,
often traversing program paths to check some program properties. Static analysis …

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 …

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 …

Despite decades of work by researchers and practitioners on numerous software quality
assurance techniques, testing remains one of the most widely practiced and studied …

Energy consumption of mobile applications is nowadays a hot topic, given the widespread
use of mobile devices. The high demand for features and improved user experience, given …

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 …

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 …

A growing number of software solutions have been proposed to address application-level
energy consumption problems in the last few years. However, little is known about how …

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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | DECEMBER 2017 | VOL. 60 | NO. 12 review articles THE …