A Catalogue Supporting Software Sustainability Design

Shola Oyedeji, Ahmed Seffah and Birgit Penzenstadler
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Shola Oyedeji: LUT School of Engineering Science (LENS), Lappeenranta University of Technology, 53850 Lappeenranta, Finland
Ahmed Seffah: LUT School of Engineering Science (LENS), Lappeenranta University of Technology, 53850 Lappeenranta, Finland
Birgit Penzenstadler: Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840, USA

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 7, 1-30

Abstract: Like other communities, sustainability in and for software design is a grand research and development challenge. Current research focuses on eliciting the meanings of sustainability and on building approaches for its engineering and integration into the mainstream software development lifecycle. However, few concrete guidelines that software designers can apply effectively are available. A guideline aims to streamline the design processes according to a set of well-known research routines or sound industry practices. Such guidelines can help software developers in the elicitation of sustainability requirements and testing software against these requirements. This paper introduces a sustainability design catalogue (SSDC) comprising a series of guidelines. It aims to assist software developers and managers in eliciting sustainability requirements, and then in measuring and testing software sustainability. The catalogue is based on reviews of the current and past research on sustainability in software engineering, which are the grounds for the development of the catalogue. Four different case studies were analyzed using the Karlskrona manifesto principles on sustainability design. A pilot framework is also proposed that includes a set of sustainability goals, concepts and methods. It exemplifies how to apply and quantify sustainability.

Keywords: sustainability; software sustainability; information and communication technology; software design; sustainability requirement; software sustainability analysis; software sustainability guidelines; Karlskrona manifesto (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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