Abstract
[Context and Motivation] In the last years,software engineering researchers have contributed to defining the notion of sustainability-aware software as a quality requirement. [Question/problem] The field is,however, still missing instruments supporting the design and assessment of software sustainability.[Objective] This research aims at providing a validated Sustainability Assessment Framework (SAF) through along-term empirical study in close-collaboration with the software industry. [Methodology] By using the participatory technical action-research method, we validate the sustainability-quality model, one of the instruments of the SAF framework, by means of investigating its applicability in an industrial software project and detecting potential improvements.[Results] Our results confirm the effective applicability of our model as most of its quality attributes (QAs) have been either addressed in the software project or acknowledged as relevant. The action-research method was also very useful for enriching our model by identifying QAs missing in the model (e.g. regulation compliance, data privacy).[Contribution] The sustainability-quality model can be effectively used as an instrument for identifying sustainability-quality requirements, and creating awareness on the relevance of the multidimensional sustainability nature of certain quality attributes.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ICT4S 2019 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability. Lappeenranta, Finland, June 10-14, 2019. |
Editors | Annika Wolff |
Publisher | CEUR-WS |
Pages | 1-10 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Publication status | Published - 10 Jun 2019 |
Event | 6th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, ICT4S 2019 - Lappeenranta, Finland Duration: 10 Jun 2019 → 14 Jun 2019 |
Conference
Conference | 6th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, ICT4S 2019 |
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Country/Territory | Finland |
City | Lappeenranta |
Period | 10/06/19 → 14/06/19 |
Funding
This work has received partial support by Xunta de Galicia / FEDER-UE CSI (ED431G/01, ED431C 2017/58), and MINECO-AEI/FEDER-UE with the projects: Datos 4.0 (TIN2016-78011-C4-1-R), ETOME-RDFD3 (TIN2015-69951-R), and FLATCITY(TIN2016-77158-C4-3-R.)
Funders | Funder number |
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ETOME-RDFD3 | TIN2015-69951-R |
FEDER-UE CSI | ED431G/01, ED431C 2017/58 |
FLATCITY | TIN2016-77158-C4-3-R |
MINECO-AEI/FEDER-UE | TIN2016-78011-C4-1-R |
Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras | |
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España | |
Xunta de Galicia |
Keywords
- Action research
- Quality requirements
- Software-intensive systems
- Sustainability-quality model