Awesome and Dark Tactics
Homepage Catalog Tag Selection Contributions
All Tags AWS ai algorithm-design architecture browser cloud cloud-efficiency cloud-principles cost-reduction data-centric data-compression data-processing deployment design documentation edge-computing email-sharing energy-efficiency energy-footprint enterprise-optimization green-ai hardware libraries llm locality machine-learning maintainability management measured microservices migration mobile model-optimization model-training multi-objective network-traffic parameter-tuning performance queries rebuilding scaling services storage-optimization strategies tabs template testing workloads

<- Back to category

Tactic: Follow-the-sun test scheduling

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic
Type: Software Practice
Category: resource-allocation
Tags: cost-reduction  energy-footprint 

Title

Follow-the-sun test scheduling

Description

Plan test execution towards regions or in clock/calendar times in which energy is green or carbon intensity is low.

Participant

Software testers

Related software artifact

Large test suites

Context

Global Software Projects

Software feature

< unknown >

Tactic intent

To reduce the environmental impact of test executions by utilizing locations with active renewable energy supply

Target quality attribute

Energy efficiency

Other related quality attributes

Cost effectiveness

Measured impact

< unknown >

Source

Roberto Verdecchia; Emilio Cruciani; Antonia Bertolino; Breno Miranda (2025) Energy-Aware Software Testing (DOI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11023970)


Graphical representation

  • Contact person
  • Patricia Lago (VU Amsterdam)
  •  disc at vu.nl
  •  patricialago.nl

The Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics (AADT) is an initiative of the Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC). It received funding from the VU Amsterdam Sustainability Institute, and is maintained by the S2 Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Initial development of the Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics by Robin van der Wiel