Year: 2014
Type: review
Study design: Systematic Review
Abstract: Green IT is getting increasing attention in software engineering research.Nevertheless energy efficiency studies have mostly focused on the hardware side of IT, the software role still requires deepening in terms of methods and techniques.Furthermore, it is necessary to understand how to assess the software "greenness" for stimulating the energy efficiency awareness, since early phases of the software lifecycle.The main goal of this study is to describe and to classify metrics related to software "greenness" present in the software engineering literature.Furthermore, this study analyzes the evolution of those metrics, in terms of type, context, and evaluation methods.To achieve this goal, a systematic literature review has been performed surveying the metrics claimed in the last decade.After examined 960 publications, we selected 23 of them as primary studies, from which we isolated extracting 96 different green metrics.Therefore, we analyzed search results in order to show what is the trend of research about green software metrics, how metrics perform measurement on resources, and what type of metrics are more appealing for defined contexts.
Authors: Patricia Lago, Qing Gu, Paolo Bozzelli
Language: English
Topic: Green IT and Sustainability
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2142192982