TY - GEN
T1 - Do we really know what we are building? Raising awareness of potential sustainability effects of software systems in requirements engineering
AU - Duboc, Leticia
AU - Betz, Stefanie
AU - Penzenstadler, Birgit
AU - Akinli Kocak, Sedef
AU - Chitchyan, Ruzanna
AU - Leifler, Ola
AU - Porras, Jari
AU - Seyff, Norbert
AU - Venters, Colin C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research leading to these results has received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie grant agreement No 712949 (TECNIOspring PLUS) and from the Agency for Business Competitiveness of the Government of Catalonia, EPSRC grant EP/R007373/1, Digitaldialog 21 funded by the Ministry for Science, Research and Art Baden-Wrttemberg. Each named author made a significant contribution both in terms of ideas, discussions, evolution, and physical writing to be named on the paper. All authors participated in the design and development of the framework applied in the study. The authors would also like to thank Dr. Christoph Becker for insights that led us to change the focus from an analytic to an awareness framework, and Ms. Nanae Aubry for helping with part of the coding of the feedback forms.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Requirements Engineering
KW - Socio-Technical Systems
KW - Software
KW - Sustainability
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85076902258
U2 - 10.1109/RE.2019.00013
DO - 10.1109/RE.2019.00013
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076902258
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering
SP - 6
EP - 16
BT - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 27th International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2019
A2 - Damian, Daniela
A2 - Perini, Anna
A2 - Lee, Seok-Won
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2019
Y2 - 23 September 2019 through 27 September 2019
ER -