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Social Sustainability Approaches for a Sustainable Software Product

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Ana Carolina Moises de SouzaAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 48, Issue 1

Pages 38 - 43

https://doi.org/10.1145/3573074.3573085

Published: 17 January 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Sustainability is the use of existing resources without compromising them for future generations. Resources must be guaranteed in the environmental, economic, and social dimensions. Sustainable Software Engineering is an emerging research field aiming to minimize software development's negative impacts on society. Furthermore, software sustainability can be defined as a way of keeping something running at a certain level of quality in relation to these dimensions. From the social dimension perspective, it is necessary to confirm software's trade-offs, benefits, and impacts on society since it lacks empirical evidence of its achievements in software. In this research thesis, we will explore how the literature addresses the aspect of social sustainability during software development and understand how social sustainability approaches can be integrated into the context of agile software development. In the end, we expect to have a set of guidelines, activities, and practices that can be adopted by agile teams.

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 48, Issue 1

January 2023

113 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/3573074

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University of Pisa, Italy

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Bustamante-Mora ADiéguez-Rebolledo MHormazábal YMillar LCadena R(2024)Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Engineering: Products, Services, Technologies, and Social Inclusivity with a Gender ApproachSustainability10.3390/su1605188816:5(1888)Online publication date: 25-Feb-2024
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Kumar ABogner JFunke MLago P(2024)Balancing Progress and Responsibility: A Synthesis of Sustainability Trade-Offs of AI-Based Systems2024 IEEE 21st International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C)10.1109/ICSA-C63560.2024.00045(207-214)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C63560.2024.00045

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