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Sustainable development has become an increasingly important theme not only in the world politics, but also an increasingly central theme for the engineering professions around the world. Software engineers are no exception as shown in various recent research studies. Despite the intensive research on green software, today’s undergraduate computing education often fails to address our environmental responsibility.

In this paper, we present a module on energy efficient software that we introduced as part of an advanced course on software analysis and testing. In this module students study techniques and tools to analyze and optimize energy consumption of software systems. Preliminary results of the first four instances of this course show that students are able to optimize the energy consumption of software systems.

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    https://conf.researchr.org/series/ict4s.

  2. 2.

    https://www.igscc.org/.

  3. 3.

    https://greens.cs.vu.nl/.

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    http://birgit.penzenstadler.de/re4susy/.

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    https://sites.google.com/view/sustainablese-workshop/home.

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    http://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/.

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    The ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages.

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    The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education.

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    http://stackoverflow.com.

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    CS 7333 - Advanced Green Computing, https://cs.txstate.edu/academics/course_detail/CS/7333/.

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    https://vuweb.vu.nl/en/education/master/computer-science.

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    http://www.odroid.com.

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    http://code.google.com/p/caliper/.

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    https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/.

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    Actually, modern Java IDEs, such as IntelliJ, offer this transformation as a predefined refactoring.

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This work is financed by the ERDF European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation - COMPETE 2020 Programme within project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961, by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016718 and UID/EEA/50014/2013, and by the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project “SusTrainable - Promoting Sustainability as a Fundamental Driver in Software Development Training and Education”, project No. 2020-1-PT01-KA203-078646.

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Saraiva, J., Pereira, R. (2023). Energy Efficient Software in an Engineering Course. In: Porkoláb, Z., Zsók, V. (eds) Composability, Comprehensibility and Correctness of Working Software. CEFP 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11950. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42833-3_3

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