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Ensuring KEcoLab Stability: Introducing Dedicated CI-Test

Friday, 12 April 2024 | 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. Read more

How Selenium Helps Build Sustainable Software (And More)

Thursday, 11 April 2024 | Pradyot Ranjan
Categories: SoK, Selenium, Sustainability, KDE Goals, KDE Eco
Enhancing and promoting Selenium to achieve KDE's goals.

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

Thursday, 28 March 2024 | Aakarsh MJ
Categories: SoK, KEcoLab, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Software Goal
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

Introducing Support For KdeEcoTest On Windows

Wednesday, 21 February 2024 | Amartya Chakraborty
Categories: SoK, KdeEcoTest, Windows
Extending KdeEcoTest support for Windows platform

Making way for Wayland in KdeEcoTest

Tuesday, 20 February 2024 | Athul Raj K
Categories: SoK, KdeEcoTest, Wayland
Improving KdeEcoTest and making it compatible on Wayland systems

KEcoLab: Remote Energy Measurement Lab

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 | Karanjot Singh
Categories: Sustainability, Blauer Engel, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Software Goal, GSoC'23
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.

What is Sustainable Software, After All?

Wednesday, 10 May 2023 | Cornelius Schumacher
Categories: Sustainability, Blauer Engel, Energy Efficiency, KDE Goals, User Autonomy
"Sustainable Software" is a strategic goal for KDE, focusing on minimizing resource consumption and strengthening user autonomy. The aim is to create software that uses fewer natural resources, reduces energy consumption, and promotes user choice and privacy.

SoK 2023 Selenium-AT-SPI KDE Eco Power Measurement Proof Of Concept: Achieving Three KDE Goals With One Stone!

Thursday, 4 May 2023 | Emmanuel Charruau
Categories: SOK23, Selenium, KdeEcoTest, GCompris, AT-SPI, KDE Goals
How Nitin Tejuja's work for Season of KDE (SoK) will help KDE towards its goals.

Report From The German Parliament's "Sustainable by Design" Conference

Wednesday, 26 April 2023 | Cornelius Schumacher
Categories: Sustainability, Blauer Engel, Energy Efficiency
In this post I report back from the German Parliament's "Nachhaltig by Design" conference, which took place in March 2023. I realize we still have a lot to figure out to ensure we minimize the impact of software on the destruction of our planet. Nonetheless, it is encouraging to see the topic of green digitisation and sustainable software receiving more attention.

Final Weeks Of SoK23 With KDE Eco: Writing Scripts In Selenium To Reproduce KdeEcoTest Script

Thursday, 20 April 2023 | Nitin Tejuja
Categories: SOK23, Selenium, KdeEcoTest, GCompris, AT-SPI
My experience writing scripts in Selenium for GCompris activities and reproducing the GCompris KdeEcoTest script.