An Empirical Investigation on the Effect of Code Smells on Resource Usage of Android Mobile Applications
Code smells refer to suboptimal coding practices which impact software quality and software non-functional requirements such as performance, maintainability, and resource usage. Although desktop application code smells have been extensively studied in the literature, mobile applications are relative...
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| author | Mohammad A. Alkandari Ali Kelkawi Mahmoud O. Elish |
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| description | Code smells refer to suboptimal coding practices which impact software quality and software non-functional requirements such as performance, maintainability, and resource usage. Although desktop application code smells have been extensively studied in the literature, mobile applications are relatively new in nature, and the effect of code smells is only recently being studied on mobile devices. This paper investigates the effect of code refactoring on enhancing both CPU usage and Memory usage. It presents a study of three code smells: HashMap Usage, Member Ignoring Method and Slow Loop, and eight open-source applications were selected from Github for testing purposes. The three aforementioned code smells were refactored individually and cumulatively to study their effects on a mobile phone’s resource usage, with CPU usage and memory usage as the metrics of choice. The resource usage of five different versions of eight different mobile applications were measured to find the optimal refactoring strategy. The results obtained suggest that refactoring HashMap Usage and Member Ignoring Methods yielded significantly an average improvement in CPU usage of 12.7% and 13.7% respectively, while the refactoring of all three code smells yielded an improvement of up to 7.1% in memory usage. This research shows that certain refactoring methods have significant impacts on improving both the CPU usage and Memory usage. These statistically significant results can be used as the basis of guidelines to assist in writing codes which utilize smartphones’ resources more efficiently and enhance their quality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a90843852f6d41878348bf84e17dace22022-12-21T21:28:43ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362021-01-019618536186310.1109/ACCESS.2021.30750409410530An Empirical Investigation on the Effect of Code Smells on Resource Usage of Android Mobile ApplicationsMohammad A. Alkandari0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0893-6116Ali Kelkawi1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1969-1169Mahmoud O. Elish2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2767-0501Department of Computer Engineering, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, KuwaitDepartment of Computer Engineering, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, KuwaitDepartment of Computer Science, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Hawally, KuwaitCode smells refer to suboptimal coding practices which impact software quality and software non-functional requirements such as performance, maintainability, and resource usage. Although desktop application code smells have been extensively studied in the literature, mobile applications are relatively new in nature, and the effect of code smells is only recently being studied on mobile devices. This paper investigates the effect of code refactoring on enhancing both CPU usage and Memory usage. It presents a study of three code smells: HashMap Usage, Member Ignoring Method and Slow Loop, and eight open-source applications were selected from Github for testing purposes. The three aforementioned code smells were refactored individually and cumulatively to study their effects on a mobile phone’s resource usage, with CPU usage and memory usage as the metrics of choice. The resource usage of five different versions of eight different mobile applications were measured to find the optimal refactoring strategy. The results obtained suggest that refactoring HashMap Usage and Member Ignoring Methods yielded significantly an average improvement in CPU usage of 12.7% and 13.7% respectively, while the refactoring of all three code smells yielded an improvement of up to 7.1% in memory usage. This research shows that certain refactoring methods have significant impacts on improving both the CPU usage and Memory usage. These statistically significant results can be used as the basis of guidelines to assist in writing codes which utilize smartphones’ resources more efficiently and enhance their quality.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9410530/Code smellsAndroidresource usage |
| spellingShingle | Mohammad A. Alkandari Ali Kelkawi Mahmoud O. Elish An Empirical Investigation on the Effect of Code Smells on Resource Usage of Android Mobile Applications IEEE Access Code smells Android resource usage |
| title | An Empirical Investigation on the Effect of Code Smells on Resource Usage of Android Mobile Applications |
| title_full | An Empirical Investigation on the Effect of Code Smells on Resource Usage of Android Mobile Applications |
| title_fullStr | An Empirical Investigation on the Effect of Code Smells on Resource Usage of Android Mobile Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Empirical Investigation on the Effect of Code Smells on Resource Usage of Android Mobile Applications |
| title_short | An Empirical Investigation on the Effect of Code Smells on Resource Usage of Android Mobile Applications |
| title_sort | empirical investigation on the effect of code smells on resource usage of android mobile applications |
| topic | Code smells Android resource usage |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9410530/ |
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