Assessing Sustainability Impacts of Systems: SuSAF and the SDGs

Ian Brooks; Norbert Seyff; Stefanie Betz; Dominic Lammert; Jari Porras; Leticia Duboc; Ruzanna Chitchyan; Colin C. Venters; Birgit Penzenstadler

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_10

Assessing Sustainability Impacts of Systems: SuSAF and the SDGs

Ian Brooks, Norbert Seyff^*, Stefanie Betz, Dominic Lammert, Jari Porras, Leticia Duboc, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Colin C. Venters, Birgit Penzenstadler

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering
Editors	Hermann Kaindl, Mike Mannion, Leszek A. Maciaszek
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	10
Pages	205-219
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031365973
ISBN (Print)	9783031365966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_10
Publication status	Published - 8 Jul 2023

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1829 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

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Funding Information:
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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© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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Brooks, I., Seyff, N., Betz, S., Lammert, D., Porras, J., Duboc, L., Chitchyan, R., Venters, C. C., & Penzenstadler, B. (2023). Assessing Sustainability Impacts of Systems: SuSAF and the SDGs. In H. Kaindl, M. Mannion, & L. A. Maciaszek (Eds.), Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (pp. 205-219). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1829 CCIS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36597-3_10

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