Green Software Process Based on Sustainability, Waste and Evaluation Theory Approach: The Conceptual Model

Abstract

Green technology is the solution that responds to the environment and meets development needs. Climate change has led to an increasing global need to develop green and sustainable technology with economic development, employment opportunities, and long-term investment. Nowadays, people are increasingly responsive to the importance of green and sustainability. It has become progressively crucial to the government, business, products, and software industry. Green software engineering is proposed for software development to provide environmental awareness and also less waste generation throughout the development process. The current green software process model only concentrated on environmental and economic elements and was not integrated with waste elements in the development phase. Model development often consists of smaller component models, each representing a specific domain based on sustainability elements and waste elimination. Organisations and industries conducted assessments to determine the level of the greenness of a development process in their real environment. This paper presents the concept of the theory evaluation approach in the green software process, which focuses on the components and factors embedded in this model.