Advancing Energy Testing of Android is coming at 03/18/2019 - 10:00am KEC 1005 Mon, 03/18/2019 - 10:00am
Reyhaneh Jabbarvand PhD Candidate, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine Abstract: The utility of a smartphone is limited by its battery capacity and the ability of its hardware and software to efficiently use the device’s battery. To properly characterize the energy consumption of an app and identify energy defects, it is critical that apps are properly tested, i.e., analyzed dynamically to assess the app’s energy properties. However, currently there is a lack of testing tools for evaluating the energy properties of apps. As a result, for energy testing, developers are relying on tests intended for evaluating the functional correctness of apps. Are such tests adequate for revealing energy defects in apps? If not, what are the properties of tests that can effectively find energy inefficiencies in apps? How can we automatically generate such tests? Answers to these questions are the subject of my presentation. In the first part of this talk, I will introduce μDroid, a mutation testing technique that can be used by developers to assess the adequacy of their test suite for revealing energy-related defects. Applying μDroid to real-world Android apps with available test suites showed that current Android testing tools are in fact ineffective at finding energy defects. Based on the insights from this study, I identified characteristics of tests that can effectively find energy issues in Android apps. In the second part of this talk, I will present COBWEB, a search-based energy testing technique that automatically generates energy tests. Experimental results on real-world Android apps demonstrate not only COBWEB's ability to effectively and efficiently test energy behavior of apps, but also its superiority over prior techniques by finding a wider and more diverse set of energy defects. Bio: Read more: http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/colloquium/advancing-energy-testing-android [1] [1] http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/colloquium/advancing-energy-testing-android
_______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
