ecoCode: a SonarQube Plugin to Remove Energy Smells from Android Projects

Olivier Le Goaer (1) , Julien Hertout

1 LIUPPA - Laboratoire Informatique de l'Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

To face the climate change, Android developers urge to become green software developers. But how to ensure carbon-efficient mobile apps at large? In this paper, we introduce ecoCode, a SonarQube plugin able to highlight code structures that are smelly from an energy perspective. It is based on a curated list of energy code smells likely to impact negatively the battery lifespan of Android-powered devices. The ecoCode plugin enables analysis of any native Android project written in Java in order to enforce green code. — Demo video on https://youtu.be/4XIYGyPEhXQ

Mots clés: energy; smells; android; debt; battery; quality

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Olivier Le Goaer, Julien Hertout. ecoCode: a SonarQube Plugin to Remove Energy Smells from Android Projects. ASE '22: 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Oct 2022, Rochester MI, United States. pp.1-4, ⟨10.1145/3551349.3559518⟩. ⟨hal-03926637⟩