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Framing Sustainability as a Property of Software Quality.

The article focuses on case studies on sustainability in computer programming. The cases investigated were a paper mill's energy control system and a car-sharing service in Germany. The authors argue that creating a sustainability analysis framework will allow software developers to analyze the envi...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 10; pp. 70 - 79
Main Authors: LAGO, PATRICIA, AKINLI KOÇAK,, SEDEF, CRNKOVIC, IVICA, PENZENSTADLER, BIRGIT
Format: Case Study
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2015
Subjects:
Sustainability
Computer programming
Car sharing
Paper mills
Computer software development
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article focuses on case studies on sustainability in computer programming. The cases investigated were a paper mill's energy control system and a car-sharing service in Germany. The authors argue that creating a sustainability analysis framework will allow software developers to analyze the environmental and social aspects of their work and to balance this with technical and economic considerations. However, they note that sustainability requirements will add to the system scope and will necessitate more work during the requirements phase. INSET: Software Sustainability..