Going Green: An Exploratory Analysis of Energy-Related Questions

Author

Malik, Haroon ; Peng Zhao ; Godfrey, Michael

Author_Institution

David R. Cheriton Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

fYear

2015

fDate

16-17 May 2015

Firstpage

418

Lastpage

421

Abstract

The popularity of smartphones - small computers that run on battery power - has exploded in the last decade. Unsurprisingly, power consumption is an overarching concern for mobile app developers, who are anxious to learn about power-related problems that are encountered by others. In this paper, we present an empirical study exploring the characteristics of energy-related questions posed in Stack Overflow, issues faced by the developers, and the most significantly discussed APIs. We extracted a sample of 5009 Stack Overflow questions, and manually analyzed 1000 posts of Android-related energy questions. Our study shows that developers are most concerned about energy-related issues that concern improper implementations, sensor, and radio utilization.

Keywords

application program interfaces; mobile computing; power aware computing; power consumption; API; Android; battery power; energy-related questions; mobile app developers; power consumption; small computers; smartphones; stack overflow; Androids; Batteries; Energy consumption; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Smart phones; Software; API; Energy; Power; StackOverflow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSR.2015.53

Filename

7180107