Infusing Green: Requirements Engineering for Green In and Through Software Systems
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Environmental sustainability can be applied to software systems in two different understandings — either as green in software systems (greening of IT / green IT) or as green through software systems (greening by IT). Currently it is not clear how environmental sustainability can be systematically supported as an objective in requirements engineering for either of these two understandings. This paper presents a checklist and guide word based approach that demonstrates how to include the objective of environmental sustainability from the very early steps in finding the stakeholders and analyzing the domain to the definition of a usage model and specific requirements. The elaboration is illustrated by a case study on a car sharing system. As software systems affect most aspects of our daily lives, enabling software engineers to strategically align the objective of environmental sustainability with the other objectives for the software system under development could considerably decrease the impact of people in the industrialized world on the environment.
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