Analysis and evaluation of mobile apps with regard to resource efficiency and data volumes - Methodologies and tools

Abstract

The impact of software on energy and resource consumption is receiving more and more attention. While the examination of desktop software already provides initial sresults and criteria for its evaluation, the consideration of mobile apps is not quite as advanced. This paper is a first step to get an overview of which methods and tools can be used to analyse the resource and data consumption of mobile apps and to evaluate their sustainability. First, I present the previous criteria for desktop software products. In the next step, I present an existing measurement environment for determining the data volume of mobile apps. I created simple environments to identify and test components that can be used to build new measurement environments. I evaluate and compare the measurement environments based on their results. This showed variations between the environments, but an internally equal proportionality. Finally, I used the results obtained to consider how mobile apps can be analysed in terms of their resource consumption, as well as