Grupo Alarcos · Conference paper · 2015
Green Software Measurement
María Ángeles Moraga de la Rubia, Manuel Fernández Bertoa
Humanity is, in the twenty-first century, having to confront significant environmental challenges, from pollution to excessive energy consumption. Both industry and consumers are reacting to this need, which has led to the appearance of various initiatives for Green Technology. Software Engineering cannot remain indifferent to these needs and should direct its endeavours towards developing software products that take into account their environmental consequences and meet the needs of users. It is therefore possible to find various works in literature that propose Green-oriented quality models, as is the case of Chap. 10 . However, although the definition of a Green quality model is the first step and is essential, this is not sufficient. In order to have a useful model it is necessary to define measures. Bearing this in mind, in this chapter we have focused on carrying out a study of the existing Green measures which we have classified in accordance with the product greenability quality model proposed in Chap. 10 . We have analysed 192 measures, of which 74 could be applied to software products. As a result, we have obtained that, on the one hand, there is an acceptable number of measures defined to sub-characteristics of energy efficiency, resource optimization and perdurability (41 %, 23 % and 28 %, respectively), while on the other, it should be highlighted that capacity optimization sub-characteristic has a low number (8 %) of defined measures to assess it.