Feetings: Framework For Energy Efficiency Testing To Improve Environmental Goal Of The Software

Software is a fundamental part of today's society. However, both users and software professionals need to be aware that its use impacts on the environment, due to the high energy consumption it entails. One of the main gaps to be faced is the difficulty of analyzing software energy consumption in the endeavor to know whether a particular software product is as much energetically efficient as possible, or at least more efficient than another, and to improve the environmental objectives of the software. For this reason, a Framework for Energy Efficiency Testing to Improve eNviromental Goals of the Software (FEETINGS) is presented in this paper. FEETINGS is composed of three main components: an ontology to provide precise definitions and harmonize the terminology related to software energy measurement; a process to guide researchers in carrying out the energy consumption measurements of the software, and a technological environment, which allows the capture, analysis and interpretation of software energy consumption data. This paper also presents an example of the application of the FEETINGS, which aims to raise awareness of the energy consumed by the software in activities that we perform daily, such as writing a tweet or a Facebook post. As a result, we have been able to verify that FEETINGS allows us to carry out an analysis and measurement of software energy consumption to provide users with good practices, as using an emoji or a picture rather than a GIF. (c) 2001 Elsevier Science. All rights reserved.