This program is tentative and subject to change.
Our planet urges for a more responsible use of its resources, and since information technology contributes substantially to the global energy consumption, software engineering research has promptly embraced this request and is actively working towards more sustainable processes. An indispensable activity in software development is testing, which is known to be very costly in terms of time and effort. On top of this, a recent study by Zaidman has shown that software testing can be a voracious energy consumer as well. In this work we introduce the very concept of energy-aware testing as the adoption of ad hoc strategies that can help reduce the energy consumption of existing practices. We discuss some possible strategies and, as an example, we conduct a first study of an energy-aware variant of a simple similarity-based test prioritization approach, which provides evidence of perceptible savings. We encourage future research in energy-aware software testing that need to address further studies and to think up more strategies.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Fri 2 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
16:00 - 17:30 | |||
16:00 15mTalk | Full Line Code Completion: Bringing AI to Desktop SE In Practice (SEIP) Anton Semenkin JetBrains, Vitaliy Bibaev JetBrains, Yaroslav Sokolov JetBrains, Kirill Krylov JetBrains, Alexey Kalina JetBrains, Anna Khannanova JetBrains, Danila Savenkov JetBrains, Darya Rovdo JetBrains, Igor Davidenko JetBrains, Kirill Karnaukhov JetBrains, Maxim Vakhrushev JetBrains, Mikhail Kostyukov JetBrains, Mikhail Podvitskii JetBrains, Petr Surkov JetBrains, Yaroslav Golubev JetBrains Research, Nikita Povarov JetBrains, Timofey Bryksin JetBrains Research Pre-print | ||
16:15 15mTalk | Automated Accessibility Analysis of Dynamic Content Changes on Mobile Apps Research Track Forough Mehralian University of California at Irvine, Ziyao He University of California, Irvine, Sam Malek University of California at Irvine | ||
16:30 15mTalk | Qualitative Surveys in Software Engineering Research: Definition, Critical Review, and Guidelines Journal-first Papers Jorge Melegati Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Kieran Conboy University of Galway, Daniel Graziotin University of Hohenheim | ||
16:45 15mTalk | VulNet: Towards improving vulnerability management in the Maven ecosystem Journal-first Papers Zeyang Ma Concordia University, Shouvick Mondal IIT Gandhinagar, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen Concordia University, Haoxiang Zhang Centre for Software Excellence at Huawei Canada, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University, Zeyang Ma Concordia University | ||
17:00 15mTalk | Energy-Aware Software Testing New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Roberto Verdecchia University of Florence, Emilio Cruciani University of Salzburg, Antonia Bertolino National Research Council, Italy, Breno Miranda Centro de Informática at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Pre-print | ||
17:15 7mTalk | SusDevOps: Promoting Sustainability to a First Principle in Software Delivery New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Istvan David McMaster University / McMaster Centre for Software Certification (McSCert) |