Software Sustainability from A User Perspective A Case Study of A Developing Country (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

Aljarallah, Sulaiman; Lock, Russell

doi:10.1109/iccecome.2018.8659275

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“…Software development firms should utilize sustainable techniques to lower their carbon footprint, since this will have an effect on the environmental aspect of sustainability 80 . Hence, there is a need of standards and guidelines to help people think about sustainability 81 …”

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Factors influencing sustainability aspects in crowdsourced software development: A systematic literature review

Haider,

Ilyas,

Khalid

et al. 2023

J Software Evolu Process

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Crowdsource software development has become more and more popular in recent years in the software industry. Crowdsourcing is an open‐call technique for outsourcing tasks to a broad and undefined crowd. Crowdsourcing provides numerous advantages including reduced costs, fast project completion, talent identification, diversity of solutions, top‐quality, and access to problem‐solving creativity. Despite of the benefits gained from crowdsourcing, there are numerous issues like lack of experienced workers, lack of confidentiality, copyright issues, software sustainability, and so forth. There is also less focus on the long‐term sustainability of software development because of new ideas emerging in crowdsourcing software development. Furthermore, in literature, lack of guidelines towards sustainable software crowdsourcing is highlighted as one of the limitations in the software standards. This study aims to identify the factors that influence sustainability aspects in crowdsourced software development. We have conducted a systematic literature review for identification of these factors. In this paper, we present findings of the systematic literature review in the form of a list of 11 factors extracted from a sample of 45 finally selected papers. Among these factors, six of the factors are ranked as critical factors. These critical factors are “Lack of coding standard in documentation,” “Use of popular programming tools,” “Crowd Lack of knowledge and awareness about sustainability,” “Energy‐efficient coding,” “Lack of awareness about sustainable software engineering practices,” and “Lack of coordination/communication between client and crowd.”

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors influencing sustainability aspects in crowdsourced software development: A systematic literature review

Haider,

Ilyas,

Khalid

et al. 2023

J Software Evolu Process

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“…Several studies support the analysis of individual items instead of constructs in these situations. For example, Aljarallah S and Lock R [ 44 ] report on users’ perspective toward software sustainability and present much of their analysis at the item level despite reporting a Cronbach α of <.7 for some of the constructs, while Marchewka JT and Kostiwa K [ 45 ] reported much of their descriptive analysis from a UTAUT-driven questionnaire at an item level after presenting construct level reliability measures. Furthermore, Elo A-L et al [ 46 ] and Clason et al [ 47 ] demonstrated the validity of analyzing individual survey items (not summated).…”

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confidence: 99%

Acceptance of a Smartphone-Based Visual Field Screening Platform for Glaucoma: Pre-Post Study

Nida¹,

Bekele²,

Geurts³

et al. 2021

JMIR Form Res

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Background Glaucoma, the silent thief of sight, is a major cause of blindness worldwide. It is a burden for people in low-income countries, specifically countries where glaucoma-induced blindness accounts for 15% of the total incidence of blindness. More than half the people living with glaucoma in low-income countries are unaware of the disease until it progresses to an advanced stage, resulting in permanent visual impairment. Objective This study aims to evaluate the acceptability of the Glaucoma Easy Screener (GES), a low-cost and portable visual field screening platform comprising a smartphone, a stereoscopic virtual reality headset, and a gaming joystick. Methods A mixed methods study that included 24 eye care professionals from 4 hospitals in Southwest Ethiopia was conducted to evaluate the acceptability of GES. A pre-post design was used to collect perspectives before and after using the GES by using questionnaires and semistructured interviews. A Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to determine the significance of any change in the scores of the questionnaire items (two-tailed, 95% CI; α=.05). The questionnaire and interview questions were guided by the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. Results Positive results were obtained both before and after use, suggesting the acceptance of mobile health solutions for conducting glaucoma screening by using a low-cost headset with a smartphone and a game controller. There was a significant increase (two-tailed, 95% CI; α=.05) in the average scores of 86% (19/22) of postuse questionnaire items compared with those of preuse questionnaire items. Ophthalmic professionals perceived GES as easy to use and as a tool that enabled the conduct of glaucoma screening tests, especially during outreach to rural areas. However, positive evaluations are contingent on the accuracy of the tool. Moreover, ophthalmologists voiced the need to limit the tool to screening only (ie, not for making diagnoses). Conclusions This study supports the feasibility of using a mobile device in combination with a low-cost virtual reality headset and classic controller for glaucoma screening in rural areas. GES has the potential to reduce the burden of irreversible blindness caused by glaucoma. However, further assessment of its sensitivity and specificity is required.

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“…Consequently, sustainability becomes essential to include in software development, and there is a demand for more attention on raising awareness about, and how to innovate, green and sustainable software to support achievement of the SDGs by 2030 . Thus, the identification of software development sustainability requirements is considered a crucial topic that has been investigated and discussed in various countries, such as Brazil [14], [15], Pakistan [16], and Saudi Arabia [17], [18]. According to [19], there is no common understanding about the definition of sustainability in the context of requirements engineering.…”

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BERT-Based Approach for Greening Software Requirements Engineering Through Non-Functional Requirements

Subahi

2023

IEEE Access

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The incorporation of sustainability principles during the requirements engineering phase of the development life cycle constitutes greening software requirements. This incorporation can have a variety of effects on the software design employed in modern and cutting-edge information technology (IT) systems. When sustainability principles are incorporated into requirements engineering, software design priorities can change and address current design issues such as energy and resource consumption, modularity, maintainability, and adaptability. In contrast to other green approaches that consider sustainable development, there is a further need to investigate the relationship between software development and the relevant green principles of sustainability during the requirements engineering phase. We present a new mechanism for mapping software nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) to defined dimensions of green software sustainability, consisting of two mapping steps: 1) between NFRs and sustainability dimensions; and 2) between sustainability dimensions and two clusters of green IT aspects defined in this work. The overall architecture of the promising approach is based on the use of the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) language model with an expanded dataset. We consider transfer learning and domainspecific fine-tuning capabilities for constructing and evaluating a model specifically tailored for developing a proof of concept of the greening software requirements engineering task, as language models have recently emerged as a potent technique in the field of software engineering, with numerous applications in code analysis, automated documentation, and code generation. In addition, we test the model's performance using an extended version of the PROMISE_exp dataset after adding a new binary classification column for categorizing sustainability dimensions into two defined clusters: Eco-technical and Socioeconomic, and having a selected domain expert label the raw data. The model's efficiency is evaluated using four matrices-1) accuracy; 2) precision; 3) recall; and 4) F1 score-across a variety of epoch and batch sizes. Our numerical results demonstrate the viability of the approach in text classification tasks via performing well in mapping NFRs to software sustainability dimensions. This acts as a proof of concept for automating the sustainability measurement of software awareness at the early development stage. In addition, the results emphasize the importance of domain-specific fine-tuning and transfer learning for obtaining high performance in classification tasks in requirements engineering.

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Software Sustainability from A User Perspective A Case Study of A Developing Country (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

Cited by 6 publications

References 37 publications

Factors influencing sustainability aspects in crowdsourced software development: A systematic literature review

Factors influencing sustainability aspects in crowdsourced software development: A systematic literature review

Acceptance of a Smartphone-Based Visual Field Screening Platform for Glaucoma: Pre-Post Study

BERT-Based Approach for Greening Software Requirements Engineering Through Non-Functional Requirements

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