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The Influence of Green Strategies Design onto Quality Requirements Prioritization

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Abstract

[Context and Motivation] Modern society is facing important challenges that are critical to improve its environmental performance. The literature reports on many green strategies aimed at reducing energy consumption. However, little research has been carried out so far on including green strategies in software design.

[Question/problem] In this paper, we investigate how green software strategies can contribute to, and influence, quality requirements prioritization performed iteratively throughout a service-oriented software design process.

[Methodology] In collaboration with a Dutch industry partner, an empirical study was carried out with 19 student teams playing the role of software designers, who completed the design of a real-life project through 7 weekly deliverables.

[Principle ideas/results] We identified a list of quality requirements (QRs) that were considered by the teams as part of their architectural decisions when green strategies were introduced. By analyzing relations between QRs and green strategies, our study confirms usability as the most used QR for addressing green strategies that allow to create people awareness. Qualities like reliability, performance, interoperability, scalability and availability emerged as the most relevant for addressing service-awareness green strategies.

[Contribution] If used at the beginning of a green software project, our results help including the most relevant QRs for addressing those green software strategies that are e.g. the most domain-generic (like increase carbon footprint awareness, paperless service provisioning, virtualization).

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Acknowledgment

This work has received partial funding from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, with the project GreenServe. It was also partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness with the Project: TIN2016-78011-C4-1-R, and Galician Government with the project: ED431C 2017/58.

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  1. Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

    Nelly Condori Fernandez

  2. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Nelly Condori Fernandez & Patricia Lago

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  1. Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany

    Erik Kamsties

  2. Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Jennifer Horkoff

  3. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Fabiano Dalpiaz

Appendices

Appendix A: Green Strategies

Table 6. Software green strategies for the EV-mobility project. (Gray rows = Domain-generic strategies; rows = Domain-specific strategies) [12]
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Appendix B: Data collection template

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Excel template for data collection (p1 = design space specification; p2 = design space refinement; p3 = solution space design)

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Condori Fernandez, N., Lago, P. (2018). The Influence of Green Strategies Design onto Quality Requirements Prioritization. In: Kamsties, E., Horkoff, J., Dalpiaz, F. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10753. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77243-1_12

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