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Assessing the environmental impact of mobile applications: a measure framework toward DevGreenOps

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Information and Communication Technologies are responsible for an increasing share of humanity's environmental impact. Such impacts are in part caused by the usage and manufacturing of mobile devices, in particular, due to their short-lived batteries. To limit such impacts, software editors should optimize the energy and data usage of their applications. However, such metrics are not trivial to monitor. This paper thus introduces a test framework to measure the energy and data usage of applications on physical devices during realistic usage scenarios. This framework is designed to be integrated into existing quality assurance processes such as Continuous Integration, thus enabling a DevGreenOps methodology.

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    MOBILESoft '24: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems
    April 2024
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    DOI:10.1145/3647632
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    2. measure
    3. performance
    4. application
    5. energy

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