To ensure user satisfaction and success of mobile applications, it is important to provide
highly performant applications. This is particularly important for resource-constrained …

Mobile devices have become indispensable in our daily life and reducing the energy
consumed by them has become essential. However, developing energy-efficient mobile …

Refactoring aims at improving the maintainability of source code without modifying its
external behavior. Previous works proposed approaches to recommend refactoring …

Mobile applications must continuously evolve, sometimes under such time pressure that
poor design or implementation choices are made, which inevitably result in structural …

Context: Mobile applications have to continuously evolve in order to meet new user
requirements and technological changes. Addressing these constraints may lead to poor …

Background. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) platforms have known multiple evolutions
along the last decades to enhance both the performance they exhibit and the features they …

Only recently has the software engineering community started conducting research on
developing energy efficient software, or green software. This is shadowed when compared …

Mobile platforms are rapidly and continuously changing, with support for new sensors, APIs,
and programming abstractions. Static analysis is gaining a growing interest, allowing …

Software maintenance and evolution enclose a broad set of actions that aim to improve both
functional and non-functional concerns of a software system. Among the non-functional …

Object-oriented code smells are well-known concepts in software engineering that refer to
bad design and development practices commonly observed in software systems. With the …