Software Sustainability Development:impactibility Characteristic Focuses on Socialapproach

Sustainable software is software which developed with minimal and positive impact on environment, economic and social over its entire lifecycle. The main purpose of sustainable software is to build a software process or product with highlighting the sustainability dimension’s purposes i.e. (environment purpose, economic purpose and social purpose) instead of software development’s benefit. Currently, software development is claimed as still immature due to lack of integration on these three dimension’s purposes. Most of the studies are focuses on environment and economic dimension and less attention on social dimension in software development. Although, there are some studies emphasis on human matter in sustainable software, but the issues raised are not given serious attention and not clearly defined about the impact of software on social dimension. Therefore, this study needs to embed the social approach into software sustainability in extending the user satisfaction towards software performance provided by software. This paper presents a review on current state-of-the-art of social approach in sustainable software. The findings can support and recommend to the society in proposing the new criteria towards sustainable software with fully description on purposes, perspectives, point of views, and the context of the environment via adapting Goal Question Metric (GQM) method. The noteworthy of this study is to extend the concept of social approach in sustainable software and supporting the sustainability integration.