Analysis of the Relationship Between Sustainability and Software Performance

1 Introduction

The rapid increase in the world population has caused the rapid consumption of natural resources and the increase of environmental pollution problems. This situation puts the benefiting from natural resources in order to sustain the lives of future generations in danger. Information technologies (IT) and software systems, which take place in every area of our daily life, also have important responsibilities in this regard. Since software has become an important part of our daily life, it is impossible to imagine the future without software. The biggest goal of sustainable IT is to find solutions to increasing energy consumption and electronic waste problems. For this reason, an efficient software and software development process is inevitable in terms of energy, efficiency and performance. In order to develop such software, software developers and people involved in the software development process need to know how to achieve sustainable software development and have appropriate tools to achieve this goal. Especially in the software development process, concepts related to sustainability should be clarified. After determining the concept of sustainability and other factors such as maximum amount of task per unit time, the amount of resources used to fulfil a request and maximum number of users that can continue to work as desired; it is possible to manage the software development process more effectively in terms of sustainability.