Enhancing Software Engineering Processes towards Sustainable Software Product Design

The power consumption of ICT is still increasing. To date, it is not clear if the energy savings through ICT overbalance the energy consumption by ICT, or not. Where manifold efforts of Green IT address the environmental aspects of sustainability considering computer hardware, there is a lack of models, descriptions, or realizations in the area of computer software. In this paper, we propose a generic software development process enhancement that has the potential to integrate the consideration of sustainability aspects into arbitrary software development methodologies.