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Tactic: Use energy aware test suite prioritization

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic
Type: Software Practice
Category: green-software-practice
Tags: cost-reduction  energy-footprint  measured 

Title

Use energy aware test suite prioritization

Description

Prioritize test cases not only by fault detection potential but also by their energy consumption.

Participant

Software testers

Related software artifact

Test suites

Context

Software Testing

Software feature

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Tactic intent

To obtain a more sustainable test suite by considering their energy consumption

Target quality attribute

Energy efficiency

Other related quality attributes

Cost effectiveness

Measured impact

An energy saving of at least 30%, with a peak of 54%, when running up to 27% of the test suite in the prioritized order. For a fixed energy budget, PE allows it to run more tests than PR—for example, with an 800 mWh budget, PR covers only 30% of the test suite, while PE covers up to 40%.

Source

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


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  • 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