Paper Info
Title
Do we Really Know What we are Building? Raising Awareness of Potential Sustainability Effects of Software Systems in Requirements Engineering
Abstract
Integrating novel software systems in our society, economy, and environment can have far-reaching effects. As a result, software systems should be designed in such a way as to maintain or improve the sustainability of the socio-technical system of their destination. However, a paradigm shift is required to raise awareness of software professionals on the potential sustainability effects of software systems. While Requirements Engineering is considered the key to driving this change, requirements engineers lack the knowledge, experience and methodological support for doing so. This paper presents a question-based framework for raising awareness of the potential effects of software systems on sustainability, as the first step towards enabling the required paradigm shift. A feasibility study of the framework was carried out with two groups of computer science students. The results of the study indicate that the framework helps enable discussions about potential effects that software systems could have on sustainability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/RE.2019.00013
2019 IEEE 27th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Sustainability, Software, Socio-Technical Systems, Requirements Engineering
Conference
1090-705X
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-3913-5
1
0.40
References 
Authors
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leticia Duboc111512.25
Stefanie Betz2589.71
Birgit Penzenstadler347959.36
Sedef Akinli Koçak4162.68
Ruzanna Chitchyan553142.59
Ola Leifler662.91
Jari Porras771.58
Norbert Seyff845249.95
Colin C. Venters914516.66