eTagger - An Energy Pattern Tagging Tool for GitHub Issues in Android Projects

Abstract

Energy efficiency is an essential consideration in mobile application development, given that these apps run on battery-powered devices. This has led the researchers to develop a set of energy design patterns that can help the developers improve the energy efficiency of their applications. However, the adoption of these energy patterns in projects remains a challenge, given the lack of awareness about these patterns among the developers. To bridge this gap, we propose our tool eTagger, a Google Chrome extension that tags GitHub issues from Android repositories with associated energy patterns. eTagger works based on the embeddings generated by Sentence-BERT. We believe that labeling the GitHub issues with energy patterns may help towards their larger adoption as GitHub is a prominent platform in collaborative software development. A preliminary evaluation of eTagger achieved an AUC-ROC of 0.73 with a precision of 0.58, recall of 0.53 and an F1-score of 0.5. The demonstration of the tool is available at https://youtu.be/hP4pWJ4AKxE and related artifacts at https://rishalab.github.io/eTagger/.