@inproceedings{cd80939adc324deaa0876eb1043d92a9,
title = "Energy-aware test-suite minimization for Android apps",
abstract = "The rising popularity of mobile apps deployed on battery-constrained devices has motivated the need for effective energy-aware testing techniques. Energy testing is generally more labor intensive and expensive than functional testing, as tests need to be executed in the deployment environment and specialized equipment needs to be used to collect energy measurements. Currently, there is a dearth of automatic mobile testing techniques that consider energy as a program property of interest. This paper presents an energy-aware test-suite minimization approach to significantly reduce the number of tests needed to effectively test the energy properties of an Android app. It relies on an energy-aware coverage criterion that indicates the degree to which energy-greedy segments of a program are tested. We describe and evaluate two complementary algorithms for test-suite minimization. Experiments over test suites provided for real-world apps have corroborated our ability to reduce the test suite size by 84% on average, while maintaining the effectiveness of test suite in revealing the great majority of energy bugs.",
keywords = "Android, Coverage criterion, Green software engineering, Test-suite minimization",
author = "Reyhaneh Jabbarvand and Alireza Sadeghi and Hamid Bagheri and Sam Malek",
note = "This work was supported in part by awards CCF-1252644 from the National Science Foundation, D11AP00282 from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, W911NF-09-1-0273 from the Army Research Office, HSHQDC-14-C-B0040 from the Department of Homeland Security, and FA95501610030 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.; 25th International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA 2016 ; Conference date: 18-07-2016 Through 20-07-2016",
year = "2016",
month = jul,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1145/2931037.2931067",
language = "English (US)",
series = "ISSTA 2016 - Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "425--436",
editor = "Abhik Roychoudhury and Andreas Zeller",
booktitle = "ISSTA 2016 - Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis",
address = "United States",
}