The Sustainability Assessment Framework Toolkit: A Decade of Modeling Experience

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01391v2
• Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 14:45:11 GMT
• Title: The Sustainability Assessment Framework Toolkit: A Decade of Modeling Experience
• Authors: Patricia Lago, Nelly Condori Fernandez, Iffat Fatima, Markus Funke, Ivano Malavolta,
• Abstract summary: We present the Sustainability Assessment Framework Toolkit -- a set of instruments we developed to support software architects and design decision makers in modeling sustainability as a software quality property. We illustrate the toolkit with examples stemming from various cases. We extract our lessons learned, and our current research and future plans to extend the SAF Toolkit for further architecture modeling and measurement.
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• Abstract: Software intensive systems play a crucial role in most, if not all, aspects of modern society. As such, both their sustainability and their role in supporting sustainable processes, must be realized by design. To this aim, the architecture of software intensive systems should be designed to support sustainability goals; and measured to understand how effectively they do so. In this paper, we present the Sustainability Assessment Framework (SAF) Toolkit -- a set of instruments we developed to support software architects and design decision makers in modeling sustainability as a software quality property. The SAF Toolkit is the result of our experience gained in over a decade of cases in collaboration with industrial partners. We illustrate the toolkit with examples stemming from various cases. We extract our lessons learned, and our current research and future plans to extend the SAF Toolkit for further architecture modeling and measurement.

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