PETrA: A software-based tool for estimating the energy profile of android applications
Di Nucci,D. Palomba,Fabio Prota,Antonio Panichella,Annibale Zaidman,Andy De Lucia,Andrea
Di Nucci,D.
Palomba,Fabio
Prota,Antonio
Panichella,Annibale
Zaidman,Andy
De Lucia,Andrea
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Energy efficiency is a vital characteristic of any mobile application, and indeed is becoming an important factor for user satisfaction. For this reason, in recent years several approaches and tools for measuring the energy consumption of mobile devices have been proposed. Hardware-based solutions are highly precise, but at the same time they require costly hardware toolkits. Model-based techniques require a possibly difficult calibration of the parameters needed to correctly create a model on a specific hardware device. Finally, software-based solutions are easier to use, but they are possibly less precise than hardware-based solution. In this demo, we present PETrA, a novel software-based tool for measuring the energy consumption of Android apps. With respect to other tools, PETrA is compatible with all the smartphones with Android 5.0 or higher, not requiring any device specific energy profile. We also provide evidence that our tool is able to perform similarly to hardware-based solutions.
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Di Nucci, D, Palomba, F, Prota, A, Panichella, A, Zaidman, A & De Lucia, A 2017, PETrA: A software-based tool for estimating the energy profile of android applications. in Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.18