Software Sustainability from a Process-Centric Perspective

Lami, Giuseppe; Fabbrini, Fabrizio; Fusani, Mario

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31199-4_9

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“…The sustainability of the software process may significantly vary according to the way the interrelated activities composing the whole software process are performed. Such an approach to software sustainability has been recently addressed in [10,11].…”

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A methodology to derive sustainability indicators for software development projects

Lami

Fabbrini

Fusani

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software and System Process

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The ever-increasing pervasiveness of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) not only is determining radical changes in everyone's life-style, in the social organizations, and in the economic dynamics, but it is causing relevant direct and indirect effects on the environment as well. One of the aspects not yet sufficiently addressed in literature is the sustainability of the software lifecycle. In this paper, we focus on the sustainability management of software development projects. In the practice, software development projects are managed by considering principally parameters as time, costs and quality of work products. We propose a methodological approach aimed at identifying sustainability indicators to be used in project management to set up sustainability objectives for a software development project, to control their achievement during the project itself and, possibly, to adopt corrective actions to maintain the project aligned with them.The availability of such sustainability indicators may contribute to reduce the carbon footprint of the activities performed in software development projects as well as to speed-up the development of a green culture in organizations developing software.

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A methodology to derive sustainability indicators for software development projects

Lami

Fabbrini

Fusani

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software and System Process

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“…The further step we intend to make with this paper is to provide, in a coherent way with respect to [1] and [2], a method to define actual and meaningful sustainability metrics for software to make possible the deployment of sustainability-related processes.…”

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“…In particular, [1] provides a process model composed of the definition of a core set of processes able to address the basic activities to be performed in order to introduce and integrate the greenness culture in organizations developing software. Sustainability Engineering and Sustainability Management are among those processes.…”

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“…Sustainability Engineering and Sustainability Management are among those processes. The definition of such processes follows the rules stated in the ISO/IEC 15504 standard [13], that is moving towards the new 33xxx series 1 . The aim of the Sustainability Engineering process is to define sustainability objectives and to apply methods and techniques able to match them; the aim of the Sustainability Management process is to ensure the achievement of established sustainability objectives in software development.…”

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Derivation of Green Metrics for Software

Lami

Buglione

Fabbrini

2013

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. Sustainability of software depends on several factors including the processes deployed to develop, operate, maintain and dispose software systems. To make such sustainability-related processes actually deployable and controllable, specific green metrics and indicators are necessary. In this paper we propose a sound methodological approach to derive green metrics and we provide also a significant set of metrics, derived according to such an approach, able to address different aspects of software sustainability.

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“…Recently, some efforts have been performed in the context of building green and sustainable software, some design software processes to aid all stakeholders in building green software products. Other efforts contributed towards building software tools that measure the effect of software on the environment and the effect of application development environments, in terms of energy efficiency.…”

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Agile practices for global software development vendors in the development of green and sustainable software

Rashid

Khan

2018

J Software Evolu Process

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Over the last decade, the use of agile methods has grown dramatically for software development. Agile methods guarantee to accelerate the delivery of remarkable software with increased user satisfaction and reduced cost. However, in recent years, due to emergence of green software engineering, software developers are compelled to focus more on green and sustainable aspects of software. Global software engineering aims to design, develop, and use a software with limited energy and computing resources. Recently, software engineers in global software development (GSD) have adapted agile methods for quick, interactive, and environment‐friendly software development. However, there is a lack of specific practices to be followed by GSD vendors in the development of green and sustainable software. In this study, we have identified 36 agile practices through systematic literature review and applied contrived search criteria derived from the research questions; 53 relevant papers were identified and reviewed. Findings of the systematic literature review were then empirically validated through questionnaire survey in GSD industry, in which 106 relevant experts from 25 different countries participated. The identified agile practices are intended to assist GSD vendors in strengthening their agile maturity towards green and sustainable software development.

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Software Sustainability from a Process-Centric Perspective

Cited by 20 publications

References 6 publications

A methodology to derive sustainability indicators for software development projects

A methodology to derive sustainability indicators for software development projects

Derivation of Green Metrics for Software

Agile practices for global software development vendors in the development of green and sustainable software

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