Towards Applying Reengineering Services to Energy-Efficient Applications

Conserving resources and saving energy has become an important issue for information and communication technology. With increasing adoption of smart phones and tablet PCs, reducing energy consumption in mobile computing is of particular significance. User expectations towards their mobile devices are rising, and functionality is increasing. Accordingly, available energy is made a scarce resource. This paper discusses how software reengineering techniques, like dynamic analysis and refactoring, can be applied to the field of energy-aware computing, to monitor, analyze, and optimize the energy profile of mobile applications and devices.