Green scan methodology for green software assessment
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The Green Scan methodology is a joint research initiative aimed at developing a standard process for enhancing software energy efficiency. It involves identifying energy efficiency hotspots and green code smells within software applications, refactoring them, and establishing guidelines for building energy-efficient systems. The process culminates in reporting the results and benefits of the energy optimization efforts.
Green scan methodology for green software assessment
- 1. Green Scan Methodology Patricia Lago and Giuseppe Procaccianti http://www.s2group.cs.vu.nl
- 2. Introduction The Green Scan Methodology is a shared research project between the Software Engineering Group (SOFTENG) of the Politecnico di Torino and the Software Services Research Group (S2) of the VU University Amsterdam. It aims at establishing a standard process for improving Software Energy Efficiency. Below you find a glossary of recurrent terms in this presentation: ● Energy Efficiency Hotspot: a module, component or code region of a SW application that may have a critical impact on Energy Efficiency ● Green Code Smell: an implementation decision, at source code level, that makes the software execution less energy efficient. ● Green Software Guidelines: an high-level design consideration that has to be followed in order to build energy-efficient applications and software systems.
- 3. Process Overview Identify EE hotspots T0 measurement T1 measurement Phase 2: Green scan Identify Green Code Smells Refactor Green Code Smells Case Selection Phase 1: Preparation Generalize Green Code Smells Report on green scan Phase 3: Learning and communication Generalize Green Software Guidelines Elicit reusable practices from previous scan
- 4. Process Breakdown - 1 Step Input Output Tasks Case Selection The Software ecosystem of the customer A single software application to analyze for EE optimization Interview system managers from the customer in order to identify the target application Identify EE Hotspots The target software application Code regions, modules Interview application experts in order to identify which code parts are critical for EE Identify Green Code Smells The target source code Code patterns Analyze source code to extract the code patterns which may cause energy waste T0 measurement The target software application An energy consumption estimation Profile the target software application to acquire the baseline for subsequent optimization Refactor Green Code Smells Code patterns Refactored code patterns Refactor code patterns in order to improve EE T1 measurement The target software application An energy consumption estimation Profile the target software application to quantify improvements in EE
- 5. Process Breakdown - 2 Step Input Output Tasks Generalize Green Code Smells Code Patterns Standard refactoring rules Express the refactoring operations from the previous steps as standard rules Generalize Green Software Guidelines Standard refactoring rules High-level design guidelines Compose the rules into high- level design guidelines or patterns as a reference for software architects Report on Green Scan The quantified result of the process Report document Document the previous steps and report the energetic and economic benefit/loss from the process