Abstract: A system for developing software includes one or more software development computing systems, one or more power measurement systems, a data collection system coupled to the power measurement system, and an energy efficiency evaluation system. Each of the one or more software development computing systems executes sets of program instructions. The power measurement systems include sensors that measure characteristics associated with electrical power consumption by components of the software development computing systems during execution of sets of program instructions. An energy efficiency evaluation system provides a measure of efficiency (e.g., the amount of energy used to execute set of program instructions) of execution of the sets of program instructions executed on the software development computing systems based on power information from the power data collection systems. The system may include a hardware layer, a power profile layer, and a cloud programming layer.