A new approach in developing a software sustainability assessment model.

This paper discusses a new approach to develop a software sustainability assessment model with the aim to evaluate the software criteria by emphasizing the environmental, economic, and social dimensions towards sustainability. The recommended approaches such as the Evaluation Theory, Standard References for Software Evaluation: ISO/IEC15504, and Quality Function Deployment (QFD) have the capability to support the software sustainability assessment in determining the measurement criteria via quantitative and qualitative methods. These new approaches had improved the limitation of the previous software sustainability assessment model by integrating the software criteria in sustainability dimensions via Goal-Oriented Software Sustainability Evaluation Criteria (GOSSEC), which the main part of the integrated-Software Sustainability Evaluation Model (i-SSEM). GOSSEC has the ability to systematically organized the software criteria using the House of Quality (HOQ) structure by adapting the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) tool. The i-SSEM is presented as a holistic software sustainability assessment model to address the gap in the previous works by producing accurate results. This is supported by the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Weighted Sum Method (WSM) for synthesizing the data in a systematic way and making accurate decisions for each criterion towards achieving software sustainability. The final results are supported by presenting the achievement level for continuous plan and action via the sustainability index. Finally, the i-SSEM can be potentially used in the real assessment of the software industry and support software development towards sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]