EnSights: A tool for energy aware software development

Software developers strive to make mobile applications energy efficient because applications that consume high energy are unpopular among mobile users. Unfortunately, software developers lack knowledge and tools which would help them make their applications efficient in terms of energy. To facilitate them in this regard, we introduce EnSights, a tool that provides critical energy change information to the developer using structural properties of the software application. We test EnSights tool on different versions of three open-source android applications namely BeHe ExploreR, PDFCreator, and QKSMS. Our tool successfully estimates change in energy consumption across versions of these applications with F-scores of up to 86%.