Towards Sustainable Software Criteria: Rescue Operation and Disaster Management System Model

Currently there are systems which aimed at assisting rescue operators and disaster aid workers to perform rescue operation and disaster management (RODMS). These systems provide features such as to provide the relations between disasters, types of rescue operation, rescue operator and disaster aid organisations and persisting such information. The current RODMS is experiencing issues which categorised as sustainability. High cost of ownership, short product lifetime prior to its retirement, its capability to evolve abreast with current technological trends without getting obsolete easily and adapting to rapid changes in the deployed surrounding; all these non-functional requirements may be addressed under sustainability quality attribute. Unfortunately, sustainability has not been deemed as important quality attribute to be considered in most RODMS projects. Additionally, this may also due to less awareness in this subject amongst software engineers. Therefore, to apply sustainability measures which may pave the way to software that lasts, criteria and taxonomy defining it will have to be studied. This paper will explore the abovementioned issues as well as the readiness of current system design to handle frequent requirement changes by the client. Based on the review, a conceptual framework towards a sustainable software design for rescue operation and disaster management is also proposed.