Paper Info
Title
Requirements Engineering for Sustainability: An Awareness Framework for Designing Software Systems for a Better Tomorrow
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 their intended socio-technical systems. 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 for driving this change, requirements engineers lack the knowledge, experience and methodological support for acting as facilitators for a broader discussion on sustainability effects. 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. An evaluation study of the framework was conducted with four groups of computer science students. The results of the study indicate that the framework is applicable to different types of systems and helps to facilitate discussions about the potential effects that software systems could have on sustainability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s00766-020-00336-y
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Sustainability,Software,Socio-technical systems,Requirements engineering,Software engineering
Journal
25.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP4.0
0947-3602
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leticia Duboc111512.25
Birgit Penzenstadler247959.36
Jari Porras371.58
Sedef Akinli Koçak4162.68
Stefanie Betz5589.71
Ruzanna Chitchyan653142.59
Ola Leifler720.40
Norbert Seyff845249.95
Colin Venters9302.72