Sustainability in Software Engineering

Berntsen, Kristina Rakneberg; Olsen, Morten Rismo; Limbu, Narayan; Tran, An Thien; Colomo‐Palacios, Ricardo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48523-2_3

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“…Both the reviews concluded that the research is limited to few knowledge areas in SE and further research is required. Another SMS exists that captures the state-of-the-art of sustainable SE [16]. The study's primary focus was existing models, guidelines, and practices.…”

Section: Sustainability In Software Engineering -State-of-the-art Ana...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The prominent venues publishing research within the scope of sustainable SE are relatively new, e.g., the international workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS) with the frst workshop held in 2012, the international conference on ICT for sustainability 1 with the frst instance held in 2013 and the international Green and sustainable computing conference 2 with the frst conference held in 2010. Journal of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM), and the book Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices were other prominent venues [16]. An International Workshop on Sustainable Software Engineering (SUSTAINSE) has recently taken off, with its frst workshop held in 2020 3 .…”

Section: Sustainability In Software Engineering -State-of-the-art Ana...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable software engineering - have we neglected the software engineer's perspective?

Tanveer

2021

2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW)

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Background: Software development is a knowledgeintensive and creative activity requiring human ingenuity, thus, sustainability from an engineer's perspective (i.e., meeting an engineer's personal and professional needs while maintaining their mental and physical well-being) must be achieved and maintained. Aims: With this paper, we aim to bring attention to the currently overlooked aspect of sustainability from an individual engineer's perspective. Method: Through an analysis of systematic literature reviews and mapping studies, this research demonstrates a lack of research investigating the individual (human) dimension of sustainability in the current software engineering literature. Results: The analysis of the literature reviews reveals that the current research has mainly focused on reducing the energy footprint of software systems. Thus, revealing the renewed need for paying attention to the individual engineer's perspective. Conclusion: Future research should leverage contributions from related research areas like human aspects in software engineering (e.g., topics like cognition and motivation). There is a need for identifying factors that impact sustainability at an individual level and their interplay with the team and organization level practices, policies, and decisions. The overall ambition is to develop empirically validated guidelines and best practices to measure, improve and maintain sustainability from an engineer's perspective. Such measures are expected to ensure engineers' sustainability and enable highquality software development.

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Section: Sustainability In Software Engineering -State-of-the-art Ana...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sustainability In Software Engineering -State-of-the-art Ana...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable software engineering - have we neglected the software engineer's perspective?

Tanveer

2021

2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW)

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“…CSO currently includes 17K concepts and was generated by running the Klink-2 ontology learning algorithm [11] on the Rexplore dataset, which consists of about 16 million publications, mainly in the field of Computer Science. For the purpose of this analysis, we used only the branch describing the Software Engineering domain 3 , which was reviewed by five domain experts. We extracted the primary studies by querying a Scopus 4 dump from the 1980-2013 period, and selecting all publications which 1) were tagged by the STM with the CSO concept "Software Architecture", and 2) contain in the title, in the abstract, or in the keyword set at least one of the following keywords:…”

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“…This might be due to the fact that Green IT was not included as a topic specifically. Notable venues, authors and guidelines have been identified in a mapping study by Berntsen et al [3].…”

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Osborne

2017

2017 Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT)

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“…In short, studies about sustainability in software systems are quite recent and offer interesting particularities. Nine studies (AHMAD et al, 2014;MOURÃO et al, 2018;ANWAR;PFAHL, 2017;PENZENSTADLER et al, 2012;CALERO et al, 2013;PENZENSTADLER et al, 2014;BERNTSEN et al, 2017;MOISES et al, 2018;GARCIA-MIRELES et al, 2018) provide an overview of research activities, including research topics, limitations, main frameworks, methods, models, guidelines, and practices to support sustainability in software systems. Additionally, two studies Salam and Khan (2016) and Rashid and Khan (2018) focus on identifying critical factors and main practices to mitigate the risk associated with these factors.…”

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Sustainability of Systematic Literature Reviews

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Context: Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has been increasingly adopted in Software Engineering (SE) because it is considered the most reliable way to gather evidence from the literature. At the same time, SLR currently consumes much time and effort to be conducted, and its results have not impacted the software industry as expected. Despite several solutions proposed to solve the problems of SLR, the research remains very fragmented failing to provide a bigger picture of the problems and associated solutions. Objective: This study introduces the concept of sustainability in SLRs to the SE community as a holistic view of the current research scenario putting together a solid knowledge base that includes definitions, guidelines, and the main leveraging points of sustainability in current SLR conducted in SE. Method: After conducting a tertiary study investigating the main characteristics of sustainability of software systems, we applied the meta-ethnographic method to transpose sustainability characteristics into SLR context by identifying, adapting, synthesizing, and validating those which could aid researchers in conducting more useful studies with less effort. Finally, we extracted a sample of high-quality studies conducted in the SE area, next, we applied a sustainability view to identify the flaws that lead to unsustainable SLR. Results: Our study provides an overview of the role of sustainability in the SLR context and provides important assets for SE community to identify what are sustainable SLR, such as 15 characteristics of sustainable SLR and 15 sensitive points of SLR process that are considered critical factors to achieve sustainability. In addition, we propose 16 guidelines to support researchers to improve sustainability in their SLR and identified 13 leveraging points found in relevant studies in SE area that together represent actions that should be adopted immediately to enhance the sustainability of SLR. Conclusion: Our work represents a starting point for a mindset shift in the SE community about the importance of creating more sustainable reviews. Furthermore, we believe that sustainability is the missing key concept that could connect many advances achieved over the years of research and remove barriers that hinder SLR from providing useful information in a timely manner for academia and industry. Henceforth, we believe that researchers should observe sustainability as a first-class citizen while conducting/updating SLR to make them compatible with the sustainability view.

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Sustainability in Software Engineering - A Systematic Mapping

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Sustainable software engineering - have we neglected the software engineer's perspective?

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