Achieving Sustainable Software Systems by Reducing Bloat and by Promoting Green Practices in Software Engineering Education

This study focuses on the current state of programming landscape that uses high level programming languages along with several dependencies that are added using package managers. These advances make the life of a developer much easier; they can conveniently access libraries that contain functions needed for their project. They make software reuse a possibility. However, they also result in bloated software which requires large file sizes and more processing power. This study proposes a set of recommendations to reduce the software bloat to make the software development more sustainable by encouraging mindful dependency management, optimization practices, and green computing awareness as early as possible during their software engineering education.