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Fri 2 May 2025 14:30 - 14:45 at 207 - User Experience Chair(s): Ramiro Liscano

Energy consumption in software systems is becoming increasingly important, especially in large-scale deployments. However, debugging energy-related issues remains challenging due to the lack of specialized tools. This paper presents an energy debugging methodology for identifying and isolating energy consumption hotspots in software systems. We demonstrate the methodology’s effectiveness through a case study of Redis, a popular in-memory database. Our analysis reveals significant energy consumption differences between Alpine and Ubuntu distributions, with Alpine consuming up to 20.2% more power in certain operations. We trace this difference to the implementation of the memcpy function in different C standard libraries (musl vs. glibc). By isolating and benchmarking memcpy, we confirm it as the primary cause of the energy discrepancy. Our findings highlight the importance of considering energy efficiency in software dependencies and demonstrate the capability to assist developers in identifying and addressing energy-related issues. This work contributes to the growing field of sustainable software engineering by providing a systematic approach to energy debugging.

Fri 2 May

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14:00 - 15:30
User ExperienceJournal-first Papers / Research Track / SE In Practice (SEIP) / SE in Society (SEIS) at 207
Chair(s): Ramiro Liscano Ontario Tech University
14:00
15m
Talk
A Tale of Two Comprehensions? Analyzing Student Programmer Attention During Code Summarization
Journal-first Papers
Zachary Karas Vanderbilt University, Aakash Bansal University of Notre Dame, Yifan Zhang Vanderbilt University, Toby Jia-Jun Li University of Notre Dame, Collin McMillan University of Notre Dame, Yu Huang Vanderbilt University
14:15
15m
Talk
Asking and Answering Questions During Memory Profiling
Journal-first Papers
Alison Fernandez Blanco University of Chile, Araceli Queirolo Cordova ISCLab, Department of Computer Science (DCC), University of Chile, Alexandre Bergel University of Chile, Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
14:30
15m
Talk
Unveiling the Energy Vampires: A Methodology for Debugging Software Energy ConsumptionArtifact-FunctionalArtifact-AvailableArtifact-ReusableAward Winner
Research Track
Enrique Barba Roque TU Delft, Luís Cruz TU Delft, Thomas Durieux TU Delft
Pre-print
14:45
15m
Talk
Designing a Tool for Evacuation Plan Validation: Multi-Agent Simulations with Persona-Based UI
SE in Society (SEIS)
Gennaro Zanfardino University of L'Aquila, Antinisca Di Marco University of L'Aquila, Michele Tucci University of L'Aquila
15:00
15m
Talk
Testing False Recalls in E-commerce Apps: a User-perspective Blackbox Approach
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Shengnan Wu School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Yongxiang Hu Fudan University, Jiazhen Gu Fudan University, China, Penglei Mao School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Jin Meng Meituan Inc., Liujie Fan Meituan Inc., Zhongshi Luan Meituan Inc., Xin Wang Fudan University, Yangfan Zhou Fudan University
15:15
7m
Talk
On the acceptance by code reviewers of candidate security patches suggested by Automated Program Repair tools.Security
Journal-first Papers
Aurora Papotti Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ranindya Paramitha University of Trento, Fabio Massacci University of Trento; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
15:22
7m
Talk
On Effectiveness and Efficiency of Gamified Exploratory GUI Testing
Journal-first Papers
Riccardo Coppola Politecnico di Torino, Tommaso Fulcini Politecnico di Torino, Luca Ardito Politecnico di Torino, Marco Torchiano Politecnico di Torino, Emil Alégroth Blekinge Institute of Technology
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