Diagnosing Energy Efficiency and Performance for Mobile Internetware Applications

Author

Yepang Liu ; Chang Xu ; Shing-Chi Cheung

Author_Institution

Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong, China

Volume

32

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Jan.-Feb. 2015

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

75

Abstract

Many smartphone applications´ smart services are realized in a way that wastes energy or degrades performance, seriously affecting the user experience. What´s worse, developers lack powerful tools to combat such problems, curbing the growth of Internet-based mobile computing. Research communities and industries have issued a strong call for effective techniques to diagnose energy and performance bugs in smartphone applications. This article describes bug characteristics, discusses diagnostic challenges, and reviews state-of-the-art diagnostic techniques. A case study shows how a representative tool analyzed commercial Android applications and the Samsung Mobile Software Developer´s Kit, providing useful diagnostic information.

Keywords

Internet; energy conservation; mobile computing; program debugging; smart phones; Internet-based mobile computing; Samsung Mobile Software Developer Kit; bug characteristics; commercial Android applications; energy efficiency diagnosis; mobile Internetware applications; performance bugs; smartphone application smart services; Androids; Batteries; Computer bugs; Energy efficiency; Global Positioning System; Graphical user interfaces; Internet; Sensors; Smart phones; Software engineering; Android; Internet; Internetware; automated diagnosis; energy efficiency; performance bugs; smartphone applications; software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2015.4

Filename

7030255