An Ecological View on Software Reuse

Abstract

The increase of consumption is an important motivation for the reuse of either physical or virtual products. As the software market has risen, software reuse has become a practice with favourable effects for software development companies and their clients. The most important benefits are increased productivity, reduced costs, better and easier maintenance, decreased development lead times and the improved quality of software products. Successful reuse depends on several technical and non-technical factors. The ecological impact of software is an important non-technical factor of software reuse that needs to be analysed in the context of the rapid evolution of optimization techniques. The main goal of this study is to identify ecological perspectives on software reuse. These will complete the framework of software reuse together with other technical factors, such as compatibility, and non-technical factors, such as economic and ethical implications.

Does maintainability relate to the energy consumption of software? A case study

“…Although the results showed variation in energy consumption between the versions, it was not possible to establish that these variations were in fact related to changes in the software. Radu (2018) describes the ecological benefits brought about through the reuse of software. Jelschen et al (2012), for their part, expose that some reengineering techniques improve the energy efficiency of mobile applications.…”