RADIANCE: A CASE Tool For Green Software Design

Regardless of the improvements in the efficiency of energy consumption of information and communication technology, energy consumption will forever be a requisite for software execution. Consequently, researchers have promoted the development of green and sustainable software with new development methods and tools. These, however, have been adopted with limited success due to technicalities and specific language/platform requirements. In this paper, we present RADIANCE: a web app for designing greener software with a model-driven approach based on the Behavior-Based Consumption Profiles (BBCP) external Domain-Specific Language (DSL). RADIANCE, in contrast to other tools, embraces users with different levels of knowledge about green software and software architecture. Moreover, RADIANCE assesses and rates, reports, and provides advice on the energy-consuming patterns of the software models created by the user, assisting them in identifying possible design changes that result in greener software designs from the initial stages of software development.