The Green Software Measurement Structure Based on Sustainability Perspective

Green software and its products are crucial in solving the problems associated with the long-term use of software, especially from a sustainability point of view. A few studies have proposed green software but are still limited and lack balance measurements to attain green products. At the same time, without a mechanism for measuring the green ability of a particular software product executed in a specific environment, the mentioned benefits will not be guaranteed. Although sustainability and green can be accomplished when all dimensions are in balance, there is still a lack of balance measurements to achieve green products as needed by the industries and societies. The contributions of this study revolve around the works on green software measurements to attain a green software product from a sustainability's perspective. It provides a green measure structure consisting of the element, measurements, sub measurement, and metric. The study presented in this paper was conducted through theoretical review and contributed to the initial green software measurements investigation.