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Empirical Software Engineering
Erschienen in: Empirical Software Engineering 4/2019

20.07.2018

GreenScaler: training software energy models with automatic test generation

verfasst von: Shaiful Chowdhury, Stephanie Borle, Stephen Romansky, Abram Hindle

Erschienen in: Empirical Software Engineering | Ausgabe 4/2019

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Abstract

Software energy consumption is a performance related non-functional requirement that complicates building software on mobile devices today. Energy hogging applications (apps) are a liability to both the end-user and software developer. Measuring software energy consumption is non-trivial, requiring both equipment and expertise, yet researchers have found that software energy consumption can be modelled. Prior works have hinted that with more energy measurement data we can make more accurate energy models. This data, however, was expensive to extract because it required energy measurement of running test cases (rare) or time consuming manually written tests. In this paper, we show that automatic random test generation with resource-utilization heuristics can be used successfully to build accurate software energy consumption models. Code coverage, although well-known as a heuristic for generating and selecting tests in traditional software testing, performs poorly at selecting energy hungry tests. We propose an accurate software energy model, GreenScaler, that is built on random tests with CPU-utilization as the test selection heuristic. GreenScaler not only accurately estimates energy consumption for randomly generated tests, but also for meaningful developer written tests. Also, the produced models are very accurate in detecting energy regressions between versions of the same app. This is directly helpful for the app developers who want to know if a change in the source code, for example, is harmful for the total energy consumption. We also show that developers can use GreenScaler to select the most energy efficient API when multiple APIs are available for solving the same problem. Researchers can also use our test generation methodology to further study how to build more accurate software energy models.
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Metadaten
Titel
GreenScaler: training software energy models with automatic test generation
verfasst von
Shaiful Chowdhury
Stephanie Borle
Stephen Romansky
Abram Hindle
Publikationsdatum
20.07.2018
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Empirical Software Engineering / Ausgabe 4/2019
Print ISSN: 1382-3256
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7616
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-018-9640-7

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