Data structure selection and tuning is laborious but can vastly improve an application's
performance and memory footprint. Some data structures share a common interface and …

Genetic improvement (GI) improves both functional properties of software, such as bug
repair, and non-functional properties, such as execution time, energy consumption, or …

Selecting collection data structures for a given application is a crucial aspect of the software
development. Inefficient usage of collections has been credited as a major cause of …

Non-functional properties, such as runtime or memory use, are important to mobile app
users and developers, as they affect user experience. We propose a practical approach and …

Code clones are identical or similar code segments. The wide existence of code clones can
increase the cost of maintenance and jeopardise the quality of software. The research …

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Security (TLS) are two secure protocols for
creating secure connections over the Internet. X. 509 certificate validation is important for …

Performance is one of the most important qualities of software. Several techniques have thus
been proposed to improve it, such as program transformations, optimisation of software …

The choice of how to represent an abstract type can have a major impact on the
performance of a program, yet mainstream compilers cannot perform optimizations at such a …

Software developers sometimes use inef-ficient data structures or library interfaces without
considering the potential impact they may have during the runtime of a program. This is due …

Structured Query Language (SQL) queries are ubiquitous in modern software engineering.
These queries can be costly when run on large databases with many entries and tables to …