Microbenchmarking is a widely used form of performance testing in Java software. A
microbenchmark repeatedly executes a small chunk of code while collecting measurements …

Application-level monitoring and dynamic analysis of software systems are a basis for
various tasks in software engineering research, such as performance evaluation and …

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

In contemporary software development, developers commonly conduct regression testing to
ensure that code changes do not affect software quality. Conducting performance regression …

Software developers usually rely on in-house performance testing to detect performance
regressions and locate their root causes. Such performance testing is typically resource and …

Software performance testing is an essential quality assurance mechanism that can identify
optimization opportunities. Automating this process requires strong tool support, especially …

The examination of performance changes or the performance behavior of a software
requires the measurement of the performance. This is done via probes, ie, pieces of code …

Having low performance overhead when monitoring the performance is crucial for exact
measurements. Especially when trying to identify performance changes at code level, the …

To develop software with optimal performance, even small performance changes need to be
identified. Identifying performance changes is challenging since the performance of software …

Database-centric architectures have been widely adopted in large-scale software systems in
various domains to deal with the ever-increasing amount and complexity of data. Prior …