Sustainable software: A study of software product sustainable development

Abstract

The intention of this chapter is to propose a distinct approach to software development sustainability, as well as a different understanding of sustainability in the context of software development. The chapter covers survey of good practices and software development methods as important for sustainable development of software products. Particularly, author focuses on agile methods and product line engineering as approaches supporting the sustainable development of software product. The analyzed practices and methods are suggested to be implemented for the software company sustainability. The implementation results in saving human efforts as well as energy and computer power.