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Dynamic analysis can identify improvements to programs that cannot feasibly be identified by static analysis; concurrency improvements are a motivating example. However, mapping these dynamic-analysis-based improvements back to patch-like source-code changes is non-trivial. We describe a system, Scopda, for generating source-code patches for improvements identified by execution-trace-based dynamic analysis. Scopda uses a graph-based static program representation (abstract program graph, APG), containing inter-procedural control flow and local data flow information, to analyse and transform static source-code. We demonstrate Scopda's ability to generate sensible source code patches for Java programs, though it is fundamentally language agnostic.

GAS '16- Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering

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SESSION: Game software engineering - design topics

Blending immersive gameplay with intense exercise using asynchronous exergaming

Jak Tan
Rahul Kumar
Paul Ralph

Modeling human behavior for software engineering simulation games

Alexander Nassal
Matthias Tichy

Learning game design and software engineering through a game prototyping experience: a case study

Mark Yampolsky
Walt Scacchi

SESSION: The "real" world

Are the old days gone?: a survey on actual software engineering processes in video game industry

Cristiano Politowski
Lisandra Fontoura
Fabio Petrillo
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

SESSION: Serious games for software engineering

Serious games for NP-hard problems: challenges and insights

Christina Chung
Asako Matsuoka
Yueti Yang
Julia Rubin
Marsha Chechik

Robot on!: a serious game for improving programming comprehension

Michael A. Miljanovic
Jeremy S. Bradbury

From video games to debugging code

Sean Deitz
Ugo Buy

A gamification approach for distributed agile delivery

Vibhu Saujanya Sharma
Vikrant Kaulgud
P. Duraisamy

GE '18- Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering

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SESSION: Gender diversity

Computer science identity and sense of belonging: a case study in Ireland

Catherine Mooney
Brett A. Becker
Lana Salmon
Eleni Mangina

The study¹ described in this paper investigates the role that gender plays in making the decision to study Computer Science in University College Dublin in Ireland (background influences) and investigates whether there is a difference in the perceived sense of belonging between the genders. The aim is to improve diversity and sense of belonging amongst Computer Science students, in order to ensure that our school is an inclusive space, where anyone can feel a sense of belonging regardless their gender.

GI '18- Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement Workshop

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Neutrality and epistasis in program space

Joseph Renzullo
Westley Weimer
Melanie Moses
Stephanie Forrest

Neutral networks in biology often contain diverse solutions with equal fitness, which can be useful when environments (requirements) change over time. In this paper, we present a method for studying neutral networks in software. In these networks, we find multiple solutions to held-out test cases (latent bugs), suggesting that neutral software networks also exhibit relevant diversity. We also observe instances of positive epistasis between random mutations, i.e. interactions that collectively increase fitness. Positive epistasis is rare as a fraction of the total search space but significant as a fraction of the objective space: 9% of the repairs we found to look (and 4.63% across all programs analyzed) were produced by positive interactions between mutations. Further, the majority (62.50%) of unique repairs are instances of positive epistasis.

GREENS 2014- Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software

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SESSION: Developing Sustainability Frameworks

Developing a sustainability non-functional requirements framework

Ankita Raturi
Birgit Penzenstadler
Bill Tomlinson
Debra Richardson

SESSION: Characterizing Energy-Aware Software

Towards software-adaptive green computing based on server power consumption

Andreas Bergen
Ronald Desmarais
Sudhakar Ganti
Ulrike Stege

Towards green power electronics: software controllers and domain knowledge

Krzysztof Sierszecki
Michaela Steffens
Thomas Fogdal
Juha Savolainen
Tommi Mikkonen

Energy aspects: modularizing energy-aware applications

Somayeh Malakuti
Claas Wilke

SESSION: Understanding Energy Consumption on Mobile Platforms

Can execution time describe accurately the energy consumption of mobile apps? an experiment in Android

Luis Corral
Anton B. Georgiev
Alberto Sillitti
Giancarlo Succi

Green mining: energy consumption of advertisement blocking methods

Kent Rasmussen
Alex Wilson
Abram Hindle

An investigation into energy-saving programming practices for Android smartphone app development

Ding Li
William G. J. Halfond

GREENS '16- Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software

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Lightweight measurement and estimation of mobile ad energy consumption

Jiaping Gui
Ding Li
Mian Wan
William G. J. Halfond

Adaptive virtual machine migration mechanism for energy efficiency

S. Sohrabi
A. Tang
I. Moser
A. Aleti

The influence of the Java collection framework on overall energy consumption

Rui Pereira
Marco Couto
João Saraiva
Jácome Cunha
João Paulo Fernandes

GREENS '18- Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software

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Creating and evaluating a software power model for linux single board computers

Luca Ardito
Marco Torchiano

The number of Single Board Computers (SBCs) is increasing, and so is the cumulative energy consumed by this category of device. Moreover, such devices are often always-on or running on batteries. Therefore, it is worth investigating their energy consumption to provide software developers and users with indicators for understanding how much energy the device is consuming while running a software application. In this paper, we explain a procedure for the creation of an energy consumption model of SBCs based on the usage of its components. We apply the procedure on a Raspberry PI 2 model B to test the model with a set of real applications. The results demonstrate the practical feasibility of the approach and show that estimated consumption values on our device have an average error of 2.2%, which is a good approximation without using external and expensive measuring devices.

GTSE 2014- Proceedings of the 3rd SEMAT Workshop on General Theories of Software Engineering

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SESSION: The Nature of Theories

Towards middle-range usable design theories for software engineering

Roel J. Wieringa

Evaluating process theories in software engineering

Paul Ralph

A bootstrap theory: the SEMAT kernel itself as runnable software

Iaakov Exman

SESSION: Proposed Theories

Theory based software engineering with the SEMAT kernel: preliminary investigation and experiences

Pan-Wei Ng

Alignment practices affect distances in software development: a theory and a model

Elizabeth Bjarnason
Kari Smolander
Emelie Engström
Per Runeson

Extending essence kernel to enact practices at the level of software modules

Alper Tolga Kocatas
Cengiz Erbas

Extending a general theory of software to engineering

Robert Lagerström
Mathias Ekstedt

ICGSE '18- Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Global Software Engineering

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SESSION: Scaled and distributed agile

Transitioning from plan-driven to lean in a global software engineering organization: a practice-centric view

Roopa M. S.
Ratnanabh Kumar
V. S. Mani

We share the experience of a globally distributed software development organization in transitioning from a plan-driven approach to a lean methodology with a focus on role-specific practices. We outline how the new practices supported effective working in a global setup by strengthening trust, increasing communication, fostering openness, and encouraging faster decisions.

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FSE 2016- Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering

SESSION: Keynotes

SESSION: Showcases

SESSION: Research Papers

SESSION: Visions and Reflections

SESSION: Industrial Papers

SESSION: Tool Demonstrations

SESSION: Doctoral Symposium

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