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Modern websites extensively rely on JavaScript to implement both functionality and tracking. Existing privacy-enhancing content-blocking tools struggle against mixed scripts, which simultaneously implement both functionality and tracking. Blocking such ...

Producing code of good quality is an essential skill in software development. Code quality is an aspect of software quality that concerns the directly observable properties of code, such as decomposition, modularization, and code flow. Code quality can ...

As one of the most popular dynamic languages, Python experiences a decrease in readability and maintainability when code smells are present. Recent advancements in Large Language Models have sparked growing interest in AI-enabled tools for both code ...

God Header Files, like God Classes, pose difficulties in code understanding and lead to slow compilation in code evolution. However, there is little empirical evidence on their prevalence and impact. This study aims to investigate God Header Files in ...

Identifiers play an important role in helping developers analyze and comprehend source code. However, many identifiers exist that are inconsistent with the corresponding code conventions or semantic functions, leading to flawed identifiers. Hence, ...

Teaching students to develop code of good quality is important. Refactoring -- rewriting a program into a semantically equivalent program of better quality -- is a common technique to improve code quality. It is therefore relevant for students to learn ...

Learning to develop code of good quality is challenging. One way to improve code quality is through code refactoring. Students make several mistakes when refactoring code. This research project aims to comprehend student errors in code refactoring, as ...

How well do code-writing tasks measure students' knowledge of programming patterns and anti-patterns? How can we assess this knowledge more accurately? To explore these questions, we surveyed 328 intermediate CS students and measured their performance ...

Pythonic idioms are widely adopted in the Python community because of their advantages such as conciseness and performance. However, when Python programmers use pythonic idioms, they face many challenges such as being unaware of certain pythonic ...

A large number of bug reports are created during the evolution of a software system. Locating the source code files that need to be changed in order to fix these bugs is a challenging task. Information retrieval-based bug localization techniques do so ...

The Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC), a variant of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) architecture, performs better than the widely used REpresentational State Transfer (REST) architecture in some types of Web applications, such as microservices. Being ...

Approximate computing has emerged as a powerful alternative to further reduce the power of integrated circuits (ICs). The main idea is to simplify the software or hardware circuit to trade off lower power with a certain output error. This work presents a ...

Software smells indicate design or code issues that might degrade the evolution and maintenance of software systems. Detecting and identifying these issues are challenging tasks. This paper explores, identifies, and analyzes the existing software ...

• Identified and collected 145 primary studies (PS) related to smell detection in software design and code.
• Identified several detection techniques categories.
• Observed that 57% of the studies did not use any performace measures.
• 41% of the PSs omitted details ...

The fourth industrial revolution identifies cloud computing, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) as opportunity clusters with double digit growth in the next couple of years. As part of the cloud and digital transformation, the role of AI is crucial ...

Motivation: In modern it systems, the increasing demand for computational power is tightly coupled with ever higher energy consumption. Traditionally, energy efficiency research has focused on reducing energy consumption at the hardware level. ...

Developers may introduce poor code structures spotted by code smells along the software maintenance. However, only some of these structures eventually become obstacles to the addition of new features. Developers are forced to remove these obstacles ...

As software design and development is engineering technology and art, the design and coding capabilities of software engineers require continuous development and practice. After learning the basic concepts of computers, students need to constantly ...

Similarity coefficients are used by several techniques to identify refactoring opportunities. As an example, it is expected that a method is located in a class that is structurally similar to it. However, the existing coefficients in Literature have not ...

The increasing number of mobile devices with ever-growing capabilities makes them useful for running scientific applications. However, these applications have high computational demands, whereas mobile devices have limited capabilities when compared ...

Context: Code refactoring's benefits to understandability, maintainability and extensibility are well known enough that automated support for refactoring is now common in IDEs. However, the decision to apply such transformations is currently performed ...