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Tactic: Mock highly consuming functions

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic

Type: Software Practice

Category: green-software-practice

Tags: energy-footprint

Title

Mock highly consuming functions

Description

Mock the functions with high computation profiles or driving costly hardware resources by using lightweight software emulators.

Participant

Software testers

Related software artifact

Lightweight software emulators

Context

Complex Software Systems

Software feature

Mocking the highly consuming modules

Tactic intent

To test behavior while reducing the energy cost of executing full functionality

Target quality attribute

Energy Efficiency

Other related quality attributes

Cost effectiveness

Measured impact

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Source

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