Measuring the Sustainability Performance of Software Projects

摘要：

Contrary to the common assumption that software is environmentally friendly simply because it is virtual, the processes and methods used to develop, maintain and deploy software do have an environmental and social impact that is normally not accounted for by software development practices. For example, e-waste could be greatly minimized if software vendors would take into consideration the lifetime of old hardware. Like so, software that is dependable minimizes waste of resources used to support the system. This paper introduces a set of software engineering metrics that can be used to assess the economic, social and environmental sustainability of software projects, and it demonstrates how these metrics were used to assess a real project.

关键词： sustainability software engineering

作者: Felipe Albertao Jing Xiao Chunhua Tian Yu Lu Kun Qiu Zhang Cheng Liu

作者单位: Shenyang Eco-city Research Institute (SERI) IBM Research - China Beijing, China Software College Northeastern University Shenyang, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering(2010年电子商务工程国际研讨会 ICEBE 2010)

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 369-373

在线出版日期: 2010-11-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）