What do programmers know about the energy consumption of software?

Pang, Candy; Hindle, Abram; Adams, Bram; Hassan, Ahmed E.

doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.886v2

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“…Pang et al have also studied green software engineering practitioners perspectives on Construction [43]. Compared to their work, our study is broader in several ways: (1) We considered four additional phases of the development cycle that led to unique observations for the Requirements, Design, Finding and Fixing Issues and Maintenance phases, (2) The participants of our study include data center and embedded practitioners in addition to mobile and desktop practitioners, and (3) We interviewed more practitioners and collected a larger number of survey responses.…”

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An empirical study of practitioners' perspectives on green software engineering

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Zhang

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering

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The energy consumption of software is an increasing concern as the use of mobile applications, embedded systems, and data center-based services expands. While research in green software engineering is correspondingly increasing, little is known about the current practices and perspectives of software engineers in the field. This paper describes the first empirical study of how practitioners think about energy when they write requirements, design, construct, test, and maintain their software. We report findings from a quantitative, targeted survey of 464 practitioners from ABB, Google, IBM, and Microsoft, which was motivated by and supported with qualitative data from 18 in-depth interviews with Microsoft employees. The major findings and implications from the collected data contextualize existing green software engineering research and suggest directions for researchers aiming to develop strategies and tools to help practitioners improve the energy usage of their applications.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 98%

An empirical study of practitioners' perspectives on green software engineering

Manotas

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Zhang

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering

132

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“…As Pang et al [22] found, developers are not very aware of software energy consumption and thus if they were asked to act on it, as developers tend not to be very educated on the causes of software energy consumption. As of writing this, software energy consumption is a niche topic rarely taught to computer scientists or software engineers -although somewhat addressed in electrical engineering and computer engineering curriculums.…”

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“…Furthermore in software engineering venues one could perceive there is a lack of a knowledge regarding software energy consumption, which mirrors the current reality of programmers' knowledge [22].…”

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Green Software Engineering: The Curse of Methodology

Hindle

2016

2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)

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Computer Science often seems distant from its natural science cousins, especially software engineering which feels closer to sociology and psychology than to physics. Physical measurements are often rare in software engineering, except in a few niches. One such important niche is that of software energy consumption, green mining, green IT, and sustainable computing, which all fall under the umbrella of green software engineering.With the physical measurement of energy consumption comes all of the limitations of measurement and experimentation that exist in the natural sciences and engineering. Issues abound, from attribution of energy use, isolation of components, to replicable experiments. These get further complicated by cloud computing whereby systems are virtualized and attribution of resource usage is a serious issue.Thus in this work we discuss the current state of software energy consumption, and where will it go.

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Evaluating the Impact of Design Pattern Usage on Energy Consumption of Applications for Mobile Platform

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Munawar

Hassan

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Applied Computer Systems

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Energy efficiency in mobile computing is really an important issue these days. Owing to the popularity and prevalence of Android operating system among the people, a great number of Android smartphone applications have been developed and proliferated by the software developers. While developing these applications, developers have to keep energy consumption factor in mind, as the efficiency of an application is largely affected by it. Thus, designers and programmers endeavour to choose the best designing approaches to develop energy-efficient applications. It is imperative to assist the programmers in choosing appropriate techniques and strategies to manage power consumption. In the present research, we have investigated the effect of Android application design on its energy utilisation. For this purpose, we have practically implemented design patterns on two Android applications and evaluated their energy consumption before and after implementing these patterns. We have modelled the high-level design of these two Android applications by using software design patterns in such a way as to abate their energy requirement. We have also checked how the quality, maintainability, and efficiency of code are affected by these design patterns. The outcomes of the research can facilitate programmers to utilise these details while developing energy efficient solutions.

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What do programmers know about the energy consumption of software?

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Cited by 3 publications

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An empirical study of practitioners' perspectives on green software engineering

An empirical study of practitioners' perspectives on green software engineering

Green Software Engineering: The Curse of Methodology

Evaluating the Impact of Design Pattern Usage on Energy Consumption of Applications for Mobile Platform

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