A Preliminary Consideration of Software Development Process in a Circular and Sustainable Society

This paper overviews the software development process and points out virtualization, docker container, microservices, measurement etc. are the key technology to build a circular economy society. As software is now a SoS (System of systems), we pay much amounts of cost in software development process. In other words, software is now as if a kind of architecture which is as large and complicated as pyramid in ancient time. In this paper, paying attention to these situations, software development process is divided into 6 parts, and considered from various aspects in some details, i.e., what problems there are and how to solve the problems. The point is that in software development process, much amounts of paper is consumed, development processes are constantly repeated according to user’s requests or social needs changing on time, and recently Open AI software is frequently applied to software development process which consumes huge amounts of energy. This paper describes results of tackling to solve such problems.