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A Sustainability Catalogue for Software Modelling
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Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without
compromising the needs of our future generations. It covers five different dimensions:
environmental, economic, social, technical, and individual. Such dimensions are also of
interest for software. For example, memory and power efficiency have an impact on the
environmental dimension, the reduction of costs in software development and evolution
relates to the economic dimension, the use of software for general improvement of people’s
lives affects the social dimension, the software’s ability to cooperate with other systems
impacts the technical dimension, and the improvement of well-being of individuals relates
to the individual dimension. These various dimensions and their properties impact on each
other and on the base requirements of a system. Therefore, well-informed design decisions
require improved support to reason on such intra- and inter-relationships and impacts, early
in development. The objective of this dissertation is to propose a catalog of sustainability
requirements for later reuse during the software development process. The envisioned
solution involves using requirement engineering activities to address sustainability in the
early stages of the software development. The first step towards a solution was to perform a
(agile) systematic mapping study in order to gain a complete and profound knowledge about
the existing sustainability and requirement engineering techniques. This study was the base
of our work. Our final artifact is a sustainability catalogue. This catalogue addresses four
out of the five dimensions of sustainability, as well as their qualities and relationships. We
did not treat the individual dimension, for sake of simplicity and time constraints, although
we consider that some of its properties are included in the social dimension. The catalogue
was developed using the iStar framework, and it was implemented in the piStar Tool. Such
catalogue offers a generic approach that can be instantiated for particular application
domains, and for any combination of dimensions. Hence, this work will contribute to the
field of sustainable software development.
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Sustainable development sustainability dimensions requirements engineering software development sustainability requirements trade-off analysis