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Assessing the Sustainability of Software Products—A Method Comparison

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Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics

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As part of Green IT, the field of green software engineering has seen a rise in interest over the past years. Several methods for assessing the energy efficiency of software were devised, which are partially based upon rather different approaches and partially come to similar conclusions. In this paper, we take an in-depth look at two methods for assessing the resource consumption that is induced by software. We describe the methods along a case study, where we measured five sorting algorithms and compared them in terms of similarities, differences and synergies. We show that even though the methods use different measurement approaches (intrusive vs. non-intrusive), the results are indeed comparable and combining the methods can improve the findings.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    cf. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/joulemeter-computational-energy-measurement-and-optimization/ [2019-04-25].

  2. 2.

    cf. https://github.com/ColinIanKing/powerstat [2019-04-19].

  3. 3.

    cf. https://www.wattsupmeters.com/secure/index.php [2019-04-24].

  4. 4.

    The resulting catalog can be accessed at http://green-software-engineering.de/en/kriterienkatalog [2019-04-16].

  5. 5.

    Currently, we use a Janitza UMG 604.

  6. 6.

    cf. https://www.winautomation.com/ [2019-04-16].

  7. 7.

    cf. https://www.oscar.umwelt-campus.de (German only) [2019-04-18], source code available at https://gitlab.umwelt-campus.de/y.becker/oscar-public [2019-04-18].

  8. 8.

    cf. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3257517.

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This work was, in part, supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and European FEDER funds through the GINSENG-UCLM (TIN2015-70259-C2-1-R) projects. It is also part of the SOS project (SBPLY/17/180501/000364), funded by the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the Directorate General of Universities, Research and Innovation of the JCCM (Regional Government of the Autonomous Region of Castilla La Mancha).

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  1. Institute of Technology and Information Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Javier Mancebo, Felix Garcia & Coral Calero

  2. University of Applied Sciences Trier, Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, Birkenfeld, Germany

    Achim Guldner, Eva Kern, Philipp Kesseler, Sandro Kreten & Stefan Naumann

  3. Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany

    Eva Kern

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Mancebo, J. et al. (2020). Assessing the Sustainability of Software Products—A Method Comparison. In: Schaldach, R., Simon, KH., Weismüller, J., Wohlgemuth, V. (eds) Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30862-9_1

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