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Criteria for Sustainable Software Products: Analyzing Software, Informing Users, and Politics

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The energy consumption of information and communication technology is still increasing and comprises components such as data centers, the network, end devices, and also the software running on these components. Following the motto “What you can’t measure you can’t manage,” it is helpful and reasonable to develop and validate criteria for software products. In our chapter we describe some of these criteria, and also introduce a label for sustainable software products, the German “Blue Angel.” We also introduce some energy-efficient programming techniques in order to reduce consumption even during the development phase, and a measurement method for the energy consumption of software. We conclude with some implications of our results and an outlook.

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Notes

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    https://www.docker.com/ (March 16, 2020).

  2. 2.

    http://www.ti.com/tool/EVM430-F6736 (March 17, 2020).

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    Available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4233767.v1 (March 15, 2020).

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    https://01.org/rapl-power-meter (March 17, 2020).

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    https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-system-management-interface (March 17, 2020).

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    The whole catalog is available at https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/research/projekte/green-software-engineering/set-of-criteria/introduction

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    https://www.janitza.de/umg-604-pro.html (April 20, 2020).

  8. 8.

    https://clonezilla.org/ (April 20, 2020).

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    https://developer.android.com/studio/test/monkeyrunner (April 20, 2020).

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    http://appium.io/ (April 20, 2020).

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    https://www.winautomation.com/ (April 20, 2020).

  12. 12.

    https://www.macrocreator.com/ (April 20, 2020).

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    https://wiki.actiona.tools/ (April 20, 2020).

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    https://github.com/

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    https://about.gitlab.com/

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Guldner, A., Kern, E., Kreten, S., Naumann, S. (2021). Criteria for Sustainable Software Products: Analyzing Software, Informing Users, and Politics. In: Calero, C., Moraga, M.Á., Piattini, M. (eds) Software Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69970-3_2

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