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Assessing Sustainability Impacts of Systems: SuSAF and the SDGs

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Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2022)

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Abstract

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) identify key topics where action is required to transform our world towards sustainability. We call for the extensive integration of the SDGs into Software Engineering to support this transformation. This will require the creation of methods and tools for the analysis of software system impacts on the SDGs. To show how this integration might be achieved, we report on a mapping to the SDGs from an existing software sustainability assessment tool, the Sustainability Assessment Framework (SusAF). We find that there is a good mapping between SusAF and the SDGs but that mapping to some specific SDG targets may be dependant on the expertise of the analysts. Mapping of case study systems will be needed for empirical validation.

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    These are listed under Dimensions:Topics heading of Table 1.

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This research is partially funded by the UK EPSRC Refactoring Energy Systems Project (EP/R007373/1) and the Digitaldialog 21 Project.

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  1. University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Ian Brooks

  2. FHNW and University of Zurich, Windisch, Switzerland

    Norbert Seyff

  3. Furtwangen University, Furtwangen, Germany

    Stefanie Betz & Dominic Lammert

  4. LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Stefanie Betz, Jari Porras & Birgit Penzenstadler

  5. La Salle - University Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain

    Leticia Duboc

  6. University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Ruzanna Chitchyan

  7. University of Hudderfield, Hudderfield, UK

    Colin C. Venters

  8. Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Birgit Penzenstadler

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Brooks, I. et al. (2023). Assessing Sustainability Impacts of Systems: SuSAF and the SDGs. In: Kaindl, H., Mannion, M., Maciaszek, L.A. (eds) Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. ENASE 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_10

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