Framing sustainability as a property of software quality

Lago, Patricia; Koçak, Sedef Akinli; Crnković, Ivica; Penzenstadler, Birgit

doi:10.1145/2714560

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“…We exclude descriptive statistics, interviews, surveys, vehicle drivetrain models, literature review, and meta-analysis, as these are too generic. We further add the Software Sustainability Assessment method (SoSa), a recent approach proposed in the ICT4S community to assess the environmental impact of software systems [80,81]. Figure 3 subsumes meta-analysis, scenarios, transport models, vehicle drivetrain models, regression analysis, descriptive statistics, surveys, and MIPS under "others".…”

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“…SoSa analyzes the immediate, enabling, and systemic impacts of software systems on "economic, social, environmental and technical" sustainability [80] (p. 1). The result is similar to a causal loop diagram and helps to understand the relevant impacts of a software system to improve software design [80,81]. Studies that are focusing on the transport domain usually develop a transport model and assess how ICT changes transport.…”

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Assessing Indirect Environmental Effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT): A Systematic Literature Review

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Hilty

2018

Sustainability

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Indirect environmental effects of information and communication technology (ICT) are those effects of ICT that change patterns of production or consumption in domains other than ICT, or more precisely, the environmental consequences of these changes. Digitalization as the societal process of ICT-driven change has created increasing interest in the indirect environmental effects of this technology. Assessments of indirect effects face various methodological challenges, such as the definition of the system boundary, the definition of a baseline as a reference or the occurrence of rebound effects. Existing studies use various approaches or methods to assess a spectrum of ICT use cases in several application domains. In view of the large number of assessments that have been conducted, the choices made when applying assessment methods, and the variety of ICT use cases in different application domains investigated, we present a systematic literature review of existing assessments of indirect environmental effects of ICT. The review provides a state-of-the-art overview of the methods used in the research field and is intended to support researchers in designing sound assessments which yield significant results. We identified 54 studies in seven main application domains using 15 different assessment approaches. The most common application domains are virtual mobility (e.g., telecommuting), virtual goods (e.g., digital media), and smart transport (e.g., route optimization). Life-cycle assessment, partial footprint, and the "ICT enablement method" are the most common approaches. The major part of the assessments focuses on patterns of production (e.g., production of paper-based books vs. e-books), a smaller part on patterns of consumption (e.g., changes in media consumption). Based on these results, we identify as a research gap the investigation of ICT impacts on consumer behavior, which could, for example, focus on social practices, and account for the dynamic implications of change. Elaborating such an approach could provide valuable insights into ICT's impact on society and the resulting environmental consequences.

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Assessing Indirect Environmental Effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT): A Systematic Literature Review

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2018

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“…The effects of software systems are getting less attention and work to formalize sustainability as part of software engineering process is still not considered in the official standards and models of software systems [37]. The concept of sustainability for software design, and its integration into the existing catalogue of design quality attributes is needed to achieve sustainable software [38] and sustainability should also be considered as a quality of software systems like security and usability [39]. Sustainability in software design requires a multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach [40][41][42][43].…”

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A Catalogue Supporting Software Sustainability Design

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Like other communities, sustainability in and for software design is a grand research and development challenge. Current research focuses on eliciting the meanings of sustainability and on building approaches for its engineering and integration into the mainstream software development lifecycle. However, few concrete guidelines that software designers can apply effectively are available. A guideline aims to streamline the design processes according to a set of well-known research routines or sound industry practices. Such guidelines can help software developers in the elicitation of sustainability requirements and testing software against these requirements. This paper introduces a sustainability design catalogue (SSDC) comprising a series of guidelines. It aims to assist software developers and managers in eliciting sustainability requirements, and then in measuring and testing software sustainability. The catalogue is based on reviews of the current and past research on sustainability in software engineering, which are the grounds for the development of the catalogue. Four different case studies were analyzed using the Karlskrona manifesto principles on sustainability design. A pilot framework is also proposed that includes a set of sustainability goals, concepts and methods. It exemplifies how to apply and quantify sustainability.

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“…Sustainable ICT, also coined 'Green IT' [1], helps to improve energy efficiency, lower greenhouse gas emissions and promotes reuse and recycling. Recently a technical dimension has been added for software intensive systems [12], addressing the aspects of the constantly changing environment in which software is executed. Our focus on optimizing the EC of software, i.e.…”

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A Resource Utilization Score for Software Energy Consumption

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Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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Abstract-Software as the true consumer of power and its potential contribution to reach sustainability goals is increasingly being acknowledged. Studies so far have presented successful results and methods to address the energy consumption of the software, indicating that different stakeholders striving for green software have different information needs with respect to their goals. However, currently there is no uniform manner to communicate measurements to the different stakeholders such that key findings are clearly identifiable and easy to understand, which is likely to hamper green software practices. In this paper we propose a metric that expresses a score for the resource utilization, such as power consumption, of a software product. The metric is designed to be a single score and is flexible to encompass those aspects that a stakeholder considers relevant in the context of software energy consumption. The metric was applied on two applications and allowed for objective comparison of application configurations and versions. Also the behavior of these applications across different hardware configurations could be analyzed. In addition to the metric we investigate means to visualize measurements which enhances communication and helped with highlighting the key findings.

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Framing sustainability as a property of software quality

Abstract: This framework addresses the environmental dimension of software performance, as applied here by a paper mill and a car-sharing service.

Cited by 149 publications

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Assessing Indirect Environmental Effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT): A Systematic Literature Review

Assessing Indirect Environmental Effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT): A Systematic Literature Review

A Catalogue Supporting Software Sustainability Design

A Resource Utilization Score for Software Energy Consumption

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