Software Engineering

Designing usable APIs is critical to developers’ productivity and software quality, but is quite difficult. One of the challenges is that anticipating API usability barriers and real world usage is difficult, due to a lack of automated approaches to mine usability data at scale. In this paper, we focus on one particular grievance that developers repeatedly express in online discussions about...

In the context of logging, the word "structured" typically refers to the way log records are represented in a machine-readable format, such as JSON or XML. In this article, we focus on another aspect of logging structure: the message content. Computing today offers several automated ways of collecting, delivering, and processing log records from different types of systems. But modern...

This paper presents our experience with Treble, a two-year initiative to build the modular base in Android, a Java-based mobile platform running on the Linux kernel. Our TREBLE architecture splits the hardware independent core framework written in Java from the hardware dependent vendor implementations (e.g., user space device drivers, vendor native libraries, and kernel written in C/C++)....

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