Sustainable Software Engineering: Concepts, Challenges, and Vision

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Názov: Sustainable Software Engineering: Concepts, Challenges, and Vision
Autori: Christoph König, Daniel J. Lang, Ina Schaefer
Zdroj: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 34:1-28
Informácie o vydavateľovi: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025.
Rok vydania: 2025
Predmety: ddc:004, DATA processing & computer science, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Popis: Information and communication technology (ICT) offers promising opportunities to address global sustainability challenges such as climate change and social inequality by enabling energy savings and social innovations. At the same time, ICT threatens to exacerbate these crises, as evident in the increasing consumption of resources and widening digital inequalities. As one of the enablers of ICT, software engineering plays a key role to tackle the problems and explore the potentials of ICT for sustainability. However, sustainability in software engineering is still a niche topic, with little structure, a limited understanding of sustainability and few comprehensive strategies. In this article, we introduce the main concepts of Sustainable Software Engineering, critically review the state of research and identify seven future research challenges across all research areas. We further present our research vision—sustainability-driven software engineering and transdisciplinary research formats—and outline a research roadmap with the key steps to be achieved by 2030.
Druh dokumentu: Article
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 1557-7392
1049-331X
DOI: 10.1145/3709352
DOI: 10.5445/ir/1000177684
Rights: CC BY
Prístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....879f2a7307ef7b9a96339b6b24d0d1ef
Databáza: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:Information and communication technology (ICT) offers promising opportunities to address global sustainability challenges such as climate change and social inequality by enabling energy savings and social innovations. At the same time, ICT threatens to exacerbate these crises, as evident in the increasing consumption of resources and widening digital inequalities. As one of the enablers of ICT, software engineering plays a key role to tackle the problems and explore the potentials of ICT for sustainability. However, sustainability in software engineering is still a niche topic, with little structure, a limited understanding of sustainability and few comprehensive strategies. In this article, we introduce the main concepts of Sustainable Software Engineering, critically review the state of research and identify seven future research challenges across all research areas. We further present our research vision—sustainability-driven software engineering and transdisciplinary research formats—and outline a research roadmap with the key steps to be achieved by 2030.
ISSN:15577392
1049331X
DOI:10.1145/3709352