Do Energy-Oriented Changes Hinder Maintainability?

Cruz, Luís; Abreu, Rui; Grundy, John; Li, Li; Xia, Xin

doi:10.1109/icsme.2019.00013

Cited by 23 publications

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“…Other tools perform security assessment, automated test case generation and detection of non-functional issues such as energy consumption [270], [271]. While fixing non-functional performance bugs, developers need to consider the threat of introducing functional bugs [272] and hindering code maintainability [273]. In this context, Linares et al [274] suggested that developers rarely implement micro-optimizations (e.g., changes at statement level).…”

Section: Developer Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey of Performance Optimization for Mobile Applications

Hort

Kechagia

Sarro

et al. 2022

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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To ensure user satisfaction and success of mobile applications, it is important to provide highly performant applications. This is particularly important for resource-constrained systems such as mobile devices. Thereby, non-functional performance characteristics, such as energy and memory consumption, play an important role for user satisfaction. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of non-functional performance optimization for Android applications. We collected 156 unique publications, published between 2008 and 2020, that focus on the optimization of performance of mobile applications. We target our search at four performance characteristics: responsiveness, launch time, memory and energy consumption. For each performance characteristic, we categorize optimization approaches based on the method used in the corresponding publications. Furthermore, we identify research gaps in the literature for future work.

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Section: Developer Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey of Performance Optimization for Mobile Applications

Hort

Kechagia

Sarro

et al. 2022

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…Linking maintainability to the energy efficiency of Android software is the work of Cruz et al (2019). In this article, the authors study the impact of changes designed to improve energy efficiency on the maintainability of Android applications.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Namely [14] are the ones more directly related with our current work, as they attempt to evaluate the relationship between maintainability measures and energy consumption. However, Hindle (2015) focused on only one measure (lines of code) for the evaluation and the study by Cruz et al (2019) is focused on a different domain (Android applications).…”

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confidence: 99%

Does maintainability relate to the energy consumption of software? A case study

2021

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Energy consumption of software has been becoming increasingly significant, since it can vary according to how the software has been developed. In recent years, developers and researchers have been interested in analyzing, among other things, how energy consumption evolves when changes occur from one version to another in any given software. Thus far, the only studies available are theoretical papers that reinforce the idea that maintainability may have an influence on energy use, but this needs to be proven empirically, which is the goal of this article. This work presents an empirical study carried out to test whether there is a relationship between the energy consumption and the maintainability of several versions of Redmine. Maintainability has been assessed by means of different measures, such as the number of lines of code, or the complexity of the software, calculated using SonarCloud, and the energy consumption measurements have been captured using the EET device. The results obtained show that the number of lines of code affects both the energy consumption of the processor and the total consumption of the computer where the software is run. It is intended that the results from this work should serve as a basis for the undertaking of new empirical studies which will enable the relationship between the software maintainability and the energy efficiency of that software to be better understood.

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“…Further, there are domain-specific research that share similar goals. For instance, some studies focus on mining energyaware commits in the Android ecosystem [7]; mining energyaware commits and pull-requests in Android and iOS ecosystems and then building a catalog of mobile energy patterns [16]; or investigating if energy-aware commits have any impact on maintainability metrics [17]. These studies share a common limitation: since they rely on mining techniques, they do not measure the actual energy consumption data, and some of the solutions to energy-related problems might be limited to the understanding of the specific developers.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mining Energy-Related Practices in Robotics Software

Albonico¹,

Malavolta²,

Pinto³

et al. 2021

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Robots are becoming more and more commonplace in many industry settings. This successful adoption can be partly attributed to (1) their increasingly affordable cost and (2) the possibility of developing intelligent, software-driven robots. Unfortunately, robotics software consumes significant amounts of energy. Moreover, robots are often battery-driven, meaning that even a small energy improvement can help reduce its energy footprint and increase its autonomy and user experience.In this paper, we study the Robot Operating System (ROS) ecosystem, the de-facto standard for developing and prototyping robotics software. We analyze 527 energy-related data points (including commits, pull-requests and issues on ROS-related repositories, ROS-related questions on StackOverflow, ROS Discourse, ROS Answers and the official ROS Wiki).Our results include a quantification of the interest of roboticists on software energy efficiency, 10 recurrent causes and 14 solutions of energy-related issues, and their implied trade-offs with respect to other quality attributes. Those contributions support roboticists and researchers towards having energyefficient software in future robotics projects.1 We use the term data point as the superclass of any type of mined item, such as a commit message, a GitHub issue, or a discussion on StackOverflow.

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Do Energy-Oriented Changes Hinder Maintainability?

Cited by 23 publications

References 44 publications

A Survey of Performance Optimization for Mobile Applications

A Survey of Performance Optimization for Mobile Applications

Does maintainability relate to the energy consumption of software? A case study

Mining Energy-Related Practices in Robotics Software

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