📜 ecoCode rules

Rules references

Web-oriented rules were based on:

The book Ecoconception Web / Les 115 bonnes pratiques (open source repo with the best practices)
GR491, Handbook of a sustainable design of digital services
Référentiel général d’écoconception de services numériques (RGESN)

Additional rules were shared by Greenspector.

We tried to apply these rules to each supported language, so we maintain a matrix to follow the current state of development. Here are the selected rules currently available on ecoCode.

Conditions for a rule to be applicable

The rules included in a SonarQube plugin are applied through a static analysis of the code. This limits what rules can be included in the plugins.

To be applicable, a rule must follow these conditions:

It must be statically detectable.
It must be easily scriptable and return a boolean response (true/false).
It must be validated (by a collective of experts AND/OR by a research thesis or appointed researcher AND/OR by a measurement tool AND/OR by a published article).