A Software Sustainability Assessment with a Focus on Mobile Applications

• Aline R. Tonini UFRGS
• Milena R. S. Marques UFRGS
• Lisane B. de Brisolara UFRGS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2015.15220

Abstract

This paper discusses the software sustainability evaluation and proposes a quantitative evaluation approach for mobile applications. The proposed approach considers sustainability as a transversal aspect into the quality model and relates this aspect to the others characteristics from the ISO/IEC 25010:2011 standard. This way, software metrics can be used to estimate the software quality attributes, as well as to evaluate its sustainability. Case studies are presented, in which maintainability, portability and efficiency are evaluated and used to estimate the sustainability of mobile applications.

Keywords: Assessment, Software Sustainability, Mobile Apps

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