Methodological Guidelines for Measuring Energy Consumption of Software Applications

Table 1

Deliverables of the different phases and impact on threats to validity.

Phase	Input	Output	Threats to validity
Goal	—	SWUT and context	External: generalization of results
		Research questions
		Devices
How	Goal deliverable	Instrumentation	Internal: assigning consumption value to a process
		Synchronization	Construct: incorrect measurement
		Sampling	Conclusion: insufficient number of repetitions
		File format
Do	How deliverable	Measurement scripts	Construct: incorrect implementation
		Data files
Analyse	Do deliverable	Data analysis scripts	Conclusion: not suitable statistical tests
		Results and discussion