The detection of performance bugs, like those causing an unexpected execution time, has
gained much attention in the last years due to their potential impact in safety-critical and …

Android devices include many embedded resources such as Camera, Media Player and
Sensors. These resources require programmers to explicitly request and release them …

Memory leaks are usually not associated with runtime environments with automatic garbage
collection; however, memory leaks do happen in such environments and present a …

Static analysis tools find defects in code, checking code against rules to reveal potential
defects. Many studies have evaluated these tools by measuring their ability to detect known …

Despite huge software engineering efforts and programming language support, resource
and memory leaks are still a troublesome issue, even in memory-managed languages such …

Resin: A Holistic Service for Dealing with Memory Leaks in Production Cloud Infrastructure
Page 1 This paper is included in the Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Symposium on …

This paper presents Sniper, an automated memory leak detection tool for C/C++ production
software. To track the staleness of allocated memory (which is a clue to potential leaks) with …

Android system has been widely deployed in energy-constrained IoT devices for many
practical applications, such as smart phone, smart home, healthcare, fitness, and beacons …

Memory bloat is an important source of inefficiency in complex production software,
especially in software written in managed languages such as Java. Prior approaches to this …

Mobile applications (apps for short) often need to display images. However, inefficient image
displaying (IID) issues are pervasive in mobile apps, and can severely impact app …