Scenarios for the evaluation of the energy efficiency of mobile applications

The purpose of this research is to elaborate relative set of scenarios for validation of developing framework for energy efficiency assessment of the software systems based on variety of approaches, including statistics, data mining and computational intelligence. The technical tasks of the project cannot be conducted without considering specific contexts. For these reasons, the preliminary task consists of the definition of a set of scenarios that will constitute the framework for guiding the work. The combinatorial testing approach was applied to the issue of scenario generation. For this purpose the mobile application taxonomy was developed based on literature analysis. ACTS tool was used to perform automated combinatorial testing. 13 scenarios were generated based on selected parameters of mobile applications classification. The resulted set provide a reliable coverage of defined parameters so it should be considered as representative. The scenarios obtained at this step should be considered as a blueprint for selecting case studies in industrial or academic software developing projects. The idea of applying the combinatorial testing approach to scenario generation issue can be applied in vary number of research projects related to software engineering area.