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18 March
March 18, 20252 minutes
Meeting Minutes
Course: Software Engineering Discipline and Practice COMSM0166 Date: March 18, 2025 Topic: Sustainability Analysis and Green Design Integration Participants: All team members
1. Meeting Objectives
- Apply the Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) to assess the sustainability impact of the Capoo game.
- Structure the identified impacts into Chains of Effects.
- Translate the analysis results into user stories and epics, and add them to the project repository.
- Select and plan the implementation of at least three Green Software Foundation Implementation Patterns in the game code.
2. Key Workshop Activities
1. Review of the AWS Sustainability Case (10 minutes)
2. Applying the Sustainability Awareness Framework (80 minutes)
A systematic analysis of the Capoo game was conducted based on the five SusAF dimensions:
| Sustainability Dimension | Guiding Questions & Analysis Focus |
|---|---|
| Individual | Does the game encourage positive or negative personal behaviors? Is it addictive? |
| Social | Does it promote collaboration, education, or fairness? |
| Environmental | What are the impacts on natural resources and energy usage? |
| Economic | Does it help with skill development, economic opportunities, or cost control? |
| Technical | Is the software maintainable and extensible? |
3. Building Chains of Effects (20 minutes)
- Structured analysis of Capoo’s short- and long-term impacts from design to deployment and use.
- Example chain: Poor jump mechanism design → Excessive user retries → User frustration → Reduced experience → Lower project ratings
4. Designing User Stories and Epics (20 minutes)
| User Story ID | Description | Sustainability Goal |
|---|---|---|
| US-SUS-01 | As a player, I want the game to prompt rest after extended play to prevent addiction | Individual well-being |
| US-SUS-02 | As a developer, I want the game to use fewer resources to reduce energy consumption | Environmental friendliness |
| EPIC-SUS-01 | Improve overall code maintainability, including comments and modular design | Technical sustainability |
- All stories should be added to the GitHub project backlog with defined acceptance criteria.
5. Green Software Foundation Patterns (20 minutes)
- Read from the Green Software Pattern Catalog: https://patterns.greensoftware.foundation/catalog/
- The group selected the following three patterns for implementation:
| Pattern Name | Application Description |
|---|---|
| Demand Shaping | Optimize loading screens to balance server load during player peak times |
| Carbon Efficiency | Reduce loading of unnecessary assets (e.g., large sound or image files) |
| Energy Efficiency | Optimize game loops to lower CPU usage, e.g., pause updates when idle |
3. Follow-up Tasks and Documentation
- Complete and submit the SusAF analysis worksheet to the project repository.
- Add documentation for user stories and selected green patterns to the repository.
- Integrate the selected Green Software Patterns into the project code, to be used for future evaluations.
- Continue Capoo game development, prioritizing sustainability-related features.