Going Green: An Exploratory Analysis of Energy-Related Questions

Authors: Haroon Malik Peng Zhao Michael W. Godfrey

Venue: MSR   2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, pp. 418-421, 2015

Year: 2015

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.

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{haroonmalik2015ggaeaoeq,
    author = "Haroon Malik and Peng Zhao and Michael W. Godfrey",
    title = "Going Green: An Exploratory Analysis of Energy-Related Questions",
    year = "2015",
    pages = "418-421",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of 2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories"
}

Plain Text:

Haroon Malik, Peng Zhao, and Michael W. Godfrey, "Going Green: An Exploratory Analysis of Energy-Related Questions," 2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, pp. 418-421