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Jupyter Notebook is the tool of choice of many data scientists in the early stages of ML workflows. The notebook format, however, has been criticized for inducing bad programming practices; indeed, researchers have already shown that open-source ...

Nowadays, energy efficiency is recognized as a core quality attribute of applications (apps) running on Android-powered devices constrained by their battery. Indeed, energy hogging apps are a liability to both the end-user and software developer. Yet, ...

GUI animations, such as card movement, menu slide in/out, snackbar display, provide appealing user experience and enhance the usability of mobile applications. These GUI animations should not violate the platform's UI design guidelines (referred to as ...

Smartphones are a powerful tool to help visually impaired people in accessing relevant services such as education, transportation and leisure through applications. Yet, despite the growing number of mobile accessibility studies, compared to website-...

There are style guides and best practices for many programming languages. Their goal is to promote uniformity and readability of code, consequentially reducing the chance of errors.

While programmers who are frequently using the same programming ...

James Gimpel gives some fascinating insights into the growth, technology, and impact of the very widely used static analyzer, PC-lint in the never-ending battle against the bug.

This paper describes LCLint, an efficient and flexible tool that accepts as input programs (written in ANSI C) and various levels of formal specification. Using this information, LCLint reports inconsistencies between a program and its specification. We ...