MOBILESoft 2020 - Caching PWA Replication Package

This repository contains the replication package and dataset of the paper published at MOBILESoft 2020 with the title Evaluating the Impact of Caching on the Energy Consumption and Performance of Progressive Web Apps

The full dataset including raw data, mining scripts, and analysis R scripts produced during the study are available below.

This study has been designed, developed, and reported by the following investigators:

• Ivano Malavolta (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Katerina Chinnappan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Lukas Jasmontas (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Sarthak Gupta (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Kaveh Ali Karam Soltany (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

How to cite this study

If this study is helping your research, consider to cite it is as follows, thanks!

@inproceedings{MOBILESoft_Caching_PWA_2020,
  title={{Evaluating the Impact of Caching on the Energy Consumption and Performance of Progressive Web Apps}},
  author={Ivano Malavolta and Katerina Chinnappan and Lukas Jasmontas and Sarthak Gupta and Kaveh Ali Karam Soltany},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {109--119},
  doi = {10.1145/3387905.3388593},
  url = {http://www.ivanomalavolta.com/files/papers/MOBILESoft_Caching_PWA_2020.pdf}
}

Overview of the replication package

This replication package is structured as follows:

caching-pwa-replication-package
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    |--- android-runner/            Android-runner framework to execute experiments.
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    |--- automate_experiment/       Scripts to automate experiment execution
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    |--- data_analysis/             The R scripts for plotting and assesing the extracted data (see below).
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    |--- extracted_PWA/             The extracted PWAs downloaded via a Google Chrome Extension - Save All Resources.
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    |--- final_experiment_output/   Data from all 20 experiments
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    |--- raw_PWA/                   RAW data of PWAs (.zip)	
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Data analysis

data_analysis
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    |--- pwa_visualizations/          Plot figures
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    |--- all_cpu_cached_values.csv    values for CPU while using cache
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    |--- all_cpu_nocached_values.csv  values for CPU while not using caching
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    |--- all_data.csv                 entire dataset
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    |--- all_pwa_load_times.csv       values for PWA load times	
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    |--- main.R                       R script for plotting and assesing the dataset
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    |--- main_recent.R                slightly updated main.R	

Experiment Automation

automate_experiments
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    |--- Makefile                     Makefile to automate experiment execution
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    |--- counter.txt                  helper for experiment execution
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    |--- filter_collect_results.py    filter experiment results
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    |--- pwa-names.txt                helper for experiment execution
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    |--- pwa-output-file-names.txt    helper for experiment execution

License

This software is licensed under the MIT License.