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5 September 2024

Goals Sprint Recap

Cornelius Schumacher  | Categories KDE Eco, Sustainable Software
Recap of what we did at the goals sprint and where we are today.
26 August 2024

What's New In The Revised Blue Angel Criteria

Cornelius Schumacher  | Categories KDE Eco, Sustainable Software, Blue Angel
The criteria for the Blue Angel for resource- and energy-efficient software have been updated. What has changed and what does that mean for KDE?
2 July 2024

Get Started With Selenium: 4 Short Video Tutorials

Emmanuel Charruau and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss  | Categories SoK, Selenium, Sustainability, KDE Goals, KDE Eco
In just 8 minutes you too will be ready to start using Selenium AT-SPI.
29 May 2024

Opt Green: KDE Eco's New Sustainable Software Project

Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss  | Categories KDE Eco, Sustainable Software, Sustainable Hardware
KDE Eco has begun a new initiative "Opt Green: Sustainable Software For Sustainable Hardware".
12 April 2024

Ensuring KEcoLab Stability: Introducing Dedicated CI-Test

Sarthak Negi  | Categories SoK, KEcoLab, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Software Goal
KEcoLab, a tool for measuring software energy consumption, needs robust testing to ensure its functionality after every code change. This blog post presents the work I did in Season of KDE 2024 implementing dedicated test builds using Kate test scripts to achieve this goal. By implementing a dedicated "test-build" and "integration" stage within the CI/CD pipeline, we can enhance KEcoLab's reliability and maintain confidence in its results. Read more
11 April 2024

How Selenium Helps Build Sustainable Software (And More)

Pradyot Ranjan  | Categories SoK, Selenium, Sustainability, KDE Goals, KDE Eco
Enhancing and promoting Selenium to achieve KDE's goals.
28 March 2024

KEcoLab in SoK24: Incorporating Energy-Consumption Measurements In The CI/CD Pipeline

KEcoLab Sustainability has been one of three goals at KDE over the past 2 years. One aspect of this goal is to measure the energy consumption of KDE software. To do this, it is necessary to access the lab in KDAB, Berlin, which can now be done remotely using KEcoLab. Read more
21 February 2024

Introducing Support For KdeEcoTest On Windows

Amartya Chakraborty  | Categories SoK, KdeEcoTest, Windows
Extending KdeEcoTest support for Windows platform
20 February 2024

Making way for Wayland in KdeEcoTest

Athul Raj K  | Categories SoK, KdeEcoTest, Wayland
Improving KdeEcoTest and making it compatible on Wayland systems
13 June 2023

KEcoLab: Remote Energy Measurement Lab

In this post I start my journey in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) with KDE Eco by describing progress made on the exciting project of making remote access to the Energy Measurement Lab a reality.