Ebserver: Automating Resource-Usage Data Collection of Android Applications

Wellington Oliveira; Bernardo Moraes; Fernando Castor; Joao Paulo Fernandes

doi:10.1109/MOBILSoft59058.2023.00014

Ebserver: Automating Resource-Usage Data Collection of Android Applications

Wellington Oliveira^*, Bernardo Moraes, Fernando Castor, Joao Paulo Fernandes

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Abstract

Mobile applications are a typical component of people's routines. Because of that, there is fierce competition for mobile users' attention, creating pressure for mobile developers to optimize their applications in a number of ways, such as making them faster, reducing their energy consumption, or their memory usage. To understand their application resource usage, developers need to execute their app, collect data from that execution and analyze how it behaves. Researchers must also go through this process when evaluating optimizations and techniques to reduce resource usage. This error-prone experimentation process can take hours of repetitive work if done manually. In this paper, we present EBSERVER, a general-purpose measurement automation tool to collect Android device data during application executions. EBSERVER is simple to configure and extend, requiring very little instrumentation code to use. It enables users to collect execution metrics on a per-process basis from an application execution automatically. Examples of such metrics include energy consumption, CPU usage, execution time, and memory usage. EBSERVER makes it possible for applications to run multiple times in an automated manner, eliminates the need to predict the time that applications or benchmarks will run in an experiment, and is compatible with contemporary Android UI testing tools. EBSERVER has been employed in multiple experiments, including experiments that do not have involvement of its authors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM 10th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2023
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	55-59
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350311822
ISBN (Print)	9798350311822
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MOBILSoft59058.2023.00014
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2023
Event	10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2023 - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 14 May 2023 → 15 May 2023

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM 10th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2023

Conference

Conference	10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2023
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	14/05/23 → 15/05/23

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was partially by FEDER from the European Union through CENTRO 2020 under project CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-047256 – GreenStamp: Mobile Energy Efficiency Services, and Base Funding - UIDB/00027/2020 of the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory – LIACC - by national funds through the FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC), and by FCT in the LASIGE Research Unit under the ref. UIDB/00408/2020 and UIDP/00408/2020 and the RAP project under the reference EXPL/CCI-COM/1306/2021, and INES 2.0, (FACEPE PRONEX APQ 0388-1.03/14 and APQ-0399-1.03/17, CNPq 465614/2014-0).

Funding Information:
This research was partially by FEDER from the European Union through CENTRO 2020 under project CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER- 047256 - GreenStamp: Mobile Energy Efficiency Services, and Base Funding - UIDB/00027/2020 of the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory - LIACC - by national funds through the FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC), and by FCT in the LASIGE Research Unit under the ref. UIDB/00408/2020 and UIDP/00408/2020 and the RAP project under the reference EXPL/CCI- COM/1306/2021, and INES 2.0, (FACEPE PRONEX APQ 0388-1.03/14 and APQ-0399-1.03/17, CNPq 465614/2014-0).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.

Funding

This research was partially by FEDER from the European Union through CENTRO 2020 under project CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-047256 – GreenStamp: Mobile Energy Efficiency Services, and Base Funding - UIDB/00027/2020 of the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory – LIACC - by national funds through the FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC), and by FCT in the LASIGE Research Unit under the ref. UIDB/00408/2020 and UIDP/00408/2020 and the RAP project under the reference EXPL/CCI-COM/1306/2021, and INES 2.0, (FACEPE PRONEX APQ 0388-1.03/14 and APQ-0399-1.03/17, CNPq 465614/2014-0). This research was partially by FEDER from the European Union through CENTRO 2020 under project CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER- 047256 - GreenStamp: Mobile Energy Efficiency Services, and Base Funding - UIDB/00027/2020 of the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory - LIACC - by national funds through the FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC), and by FCT in the LASIGE Research Unit under the ref. UIDB/00408/2020 and UIDP/00408/2020 and the RAP project under the reference EXPL/CCI- COM/1306/2021, and INES 2.0, (FACEPE PRONEX APQ 0388-1.03/14 and APQ-0399-1.03/17, CNPq 465614/2014-0).

Keywords

Android
Energy
Metrics
Performance
Tool

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Oliveira, W., Moraes, B., Castor, F., & Fernandes, J. P. (2023). Ebserver: Automating Resource-Usage Data Collection of Android Applications. In Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM 10th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2023 (pp. 55-59). (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM 10th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2023). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/MOBILSoft59058.2023.00014

Oliveira, Wellington ; Moraes, Bernardo ; Castor, Fernando et al. / Ebserver : Automating Resource-Usage Data Collection of Android Applications. Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM 10th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2023. IEEE, 2023. pp. 55-59 (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM 10th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, MOBILESoft 2023).

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Ebserver: Automating Resource-Usage Data Collection of Android Applications

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