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- Basmer, Maike, et al.
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SusAF Welcomes SusApp: Tool Support for the Sustainability Awareness Framework
- 2021
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In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering. - 2332-6441 .- 1090-705X. ; , s. 418-419
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As sustainability increasingly gains attention, it has also found its way into the area of software engineering, with a specific emphasis on requirements engineering. The Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) proposed by Duboc et al. supports stakeholders in taking the long view at their software systems in terms of sustainability. In this paper, we propose SusApp, a web-based tool to simplify the application of the SusAF. In particular, it facilitates the documentation and visualization of effects on sustainability. To learn about the users' perception of SusApp, we conducted two small-scale user studies that investigated the tool's usability and usefulness. Overall, the studies showed that the tool was generally perceived positively by the participants. However, shortcomings in the usability became apparent, which have also impacted the perceived usefulness.
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- Carver, Jeffrey C., et al.
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Behavioral science and diversity in software engineering
- 2021
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In: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 38:2, s. 107-112
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Practioners' Digest department in this issue of IEEE Software covers two topics: the behavioral science of software engineering and diversity in software engineering (this issue's theme) and includes papers from the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE20), 2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME19), 13th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE20), Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement 2020 (ESEM20), and Association for Computing Machinery Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE20). Feedback or suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or adopt any of the practices included in this article, please send me and the authors of the paper(s) a note about your experiences.
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- Carver, Jeffrey C., et al.
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Extracting Requirements and Modeling Information and Controlling Risk
- 2021
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In: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 38:3, s. 121-124
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Presents papers from the 2020 IEEE Conference on Requirements Engineering and the ACM/ IEEE 23rd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2020).
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- Carver, Jeffrey C., et al.
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(Research) Insights for Serverless Application Engineering
- 2021
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In: IEEE Software. - 1937-4194 .- 0740-7459. ; 38:1, s. 123-125
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The special issue of IEEE Software, the ‘Practitioners Digest’ reports on papers about serverless application engineering from Journal of Systems and Software, the 2020 European Conference on Software Architecture, and the 19th International Conference on Middleware. ‘Function-as-a-Service Performance Evaluation: A Multivocal Literature Review’ by Joel Scheuner and Philipp Leitner describes 112 studies that report the empirical evaluation of the performance of function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms. FaaS is a form of serverless cloud computing and is de fined as FaaS platform Web Services (AWS) executing event-triggered code snippets. This paper consolidates the results from 61 industrial and 51 academic performance studies and provides actionable recommendations on reproducible FaaS experimentation.
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- Penzenstadler, Birgit, 1981, et al.
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Tapping in - How to Decide: Mind, Heart, or Gut?
- 2021
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In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. - New York, NY, USA : ACM.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Motivation: Immediate cognition without rationalization is called intuition - an empowering faculty. Many of us feel disconnected from our intuition, potentially causing us to struggle with confidently making decisions. Challenge: We set out to find out why that is and how to support aligned decision-making. Method: We interviewed fourteen experts on tuning into our intuition for decision-making, surveyed currently available decision-making support tools, and modeled a tool that extends current approaches with the expert insights. Results: Based on the experts' insights, we modeled a decision trifecta including mind, heart, and gut along with a narrative of how to educate on their interplay and how to use that to take more aligned decisions. We critically question to what extent decision support technology is a beneficial way forward. Impact: The model opens up a space for discussion around holistic decision making from an individual's perspective. It serves as a reflection tool for personal processes as well as the suitability and limits of supportive technology.
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- Porras, Jari, et al.
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How Could We Have Known? Anticipating Sustainability Effects of a Software Product
- 2021
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In: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 1865-1356 .- 1865-1348. ; 434 LNBIP, s. 10-17
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Companies are required to think of ways to address their sustainability responsibilities and impacts. Although they commonly present some of their activities and impacts at a high-level of abstraction in their sustainability strategies, the impacts of their products and services may remain unclear in such reporting. This is partly due to the lack of suitable tools to increase their awareness regarding the potential effects of these products and services on different sustainability dimensions. Using a case study, this paper shows how the Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) can be applied to identify such potential effects of an IT company’s (software) product and how such identified effects could be linked to the company focus.
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- Venters, Colin C., et al.
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Software Sustainability: Beyond the Tower of Babel
- 2021
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In: Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability, BoKSS 2021. ; , s. 3-4
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)
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