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The impact of energy consumption on the environment andthe economy is raising awareness of «green»software engineering. HADASis an eco-assistant that makes developers aware of the influence oftheir designs and implementations on the energy consumption and performanceof the final product. In this paper, we extend HADAS to bettersupport the requirements of users: researchers, automatically dumpingthe energy-consumption of different software solutions; and developers,who want to perform a sustainability analysis of different software solutions.This analysis has been extended by adding Pearson’s chi-squareddifferentials and Bootstrapping statistics, to automatically check the significanceof correlations of the energy consumption, or the execution time,with any other variable (e.g., the number of users) that can influencethe selection of a particular eco-efficient configuration. We have evaluatedour approach by performing a sustainability analysis of the mostcommon web servers (i.e. PHP servers) using the time and energy datameasured with the Watts Up? Pro tool previously dumped in HADAS.We show how HADAS helps web server providers to make a trade-offbetween energy consumption and execution time, allowing them to selldifferent server configurations with different costs without modifying thehardware.

Context: Quality attributes play a critical role in the architecture elicitation phase. Software Sustainability and energy efficiency is becoming a critical quality attribute that can be used as a selection criteria to choose from among different design or implementation alternatives. Energy efficiency usually competes with other non-functional requirements, like for instance, performance.Objective: This paper presents a process that helps developers to automatically generate optimum configurations of functional quality attributes in terms of energy efficiency and performance. Functional quality attributes refer to the behavioral properties that need to be incorporated inside a software architecture to fulfill a particular quality attribute (e.g., encryption and authentication for the security quality attribute, logging for the usability quality attribute).Method: Quality attributes are characterized to identify their design and implementation variants and how the different configurations influence both energy efficiency and performance. A usage model for each characterized quality attribute is defined. The variability of quality attributes, as well as the energy efficiency and performance experiment results, are represented as a constraint satisfaction problem with the goal of formally reasoning about it. Then, a configuration of the selected functional quality attributes is automatically generated, which is optimum with respect to a selected objective function.Results: Software developers can improve the energy efficiency and/or performance of their applications by using our approach to perform a richer analysis of the energy consumption and performance of different alternatives for functional quality attributes. We show quantitative values of the benefits of using our approach and discuss the threats to validity.Conclusions: The process presented in this paper will help software developers to build more energy efficient software, whilst also being aware of how their decisions affect other quality attributes, such as performance.

Context. There is a widespread belief in both SE and other branches of science that experience helps professionals to improve their performance. However, cases have been reported where experience not only does not have a positive influence but sometimes even degrades the performance of professionals. Aim. Determinewhether years of experience influence programmer performance. Method. We have analysed 10 quasi-experiments executed both in academia with graduate and postgraduate students and in industry with professionals. The experimental task was to apply ITLD on two experimental problems and then measure external code quality and programmer productivity. Results. Programming experience gained in industry does not appear to have any effect whatsoever on quality and productivity. Overall programming experience gained in academia does tend to have a positive influence on programmer performance. These two findings may be related to the fact that, as opposed to deliberate practice, routine practice does not appear to lead to improved performance. Experience in the use of productivity tools, such as testing frameworks and IDE also has positive effects. Conclusion. Years of experience are a poor predictor of programmer performance. Academic background and specialized knowledge of task-relatedaspects appear to be rather good predictors.

Context: The performance and scalability of model transformations is gaining interest as industry is progressively adopting model-driven techniques and multicore computers are becoming commonplace. However, existing model transformation engines are mostly based on sequential and in-memory execution strategies, and thus their capabilities to transform large models in parallel and distributed environments are limited. Objective: This paper presents a solution that provides concurrency and distribution to model transformations. Method: Inspired by the concepts and principles of the Linda coordination language, and the use of data parallelism to achieve parallelization, a novel Java-based execution platform is introduced. It offers a set of core features for the parallel execution of out-place transformations that can be used as a target for high-level transformation language compilers. Results: Significant gains in performance and scalability of this platform are reported with regard to existing model transformation solutions. These results are demonstrated by running a model transformation test suite, and by its comparison against several state-of-the-art model transformation engines. Conclusion: Our Linda-based approach to the concurrent execution of model transformations can serve as a platform for their scalable and efficient implementation in parallel and distributed environments.

This is a summary of [PCHS12], where a framework to combine tabling evaluation [TS86, War92] and constraint logic programming [JM94] is described (TCLP). This combination has been studied previously from a theoretical point of view [Tom97, Cod95], where it is shown that the constraint domain needs to offer projection and entailment checking operations in order to ensure completeness w.r.t. the declarative semantics. However, existing TCLP frameworks and implementations lack a complete treatment of constraint projection and / or entailment. The novelty of our proposal is that we present a complete implementation framework for TCLP, independent from the constraint solver, which can use either precise or approximate projection and entailment, possibly with optimizations.

Model transformations dealing with very large models need to count on mechanisms and tools to be able to manage them. The usual approach to improve performance in these cases has focused on the use of concurrency and parallelization techniques, which aim at producing the correct output model(s). In this paper we present our initial approach to produce target models that are accurate enough to provide meaningful and useful results, in an efficient way, but without having to be fully correct. We introduce the concept of Approximate Model Transformations.