Catalog of sustainability guidelines to support sustainable software development and operation from requirements engineering

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https://doi.org/10.36825/RITI.12.27.005

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Sustainability, Technical Sustainability, Requirements Catalog, Requirements Reuse, CRETS4DevOps

Abstract

Sustainability constitutes one of the major challenges of today's society, in particular the sustainability of ICTs and more specifically of software. Requirements engineers need guidelines to successfully address sustainability in software projects. With this goal in mind, the CRETS4DevOps method has been designed to manage requirements in DevOps environments while promoting sustainability, especially technical sustainability. CRETS4DevOps encompasses a catalog of sustainability requirements, which helps in the reuse of expert knowledge in order to address the management of software quality attributes that result in sustainability, namely: modularity, scalability, flexibility, reusability, maintainability, reliability, security, interoperability and efficiency. This catalog is intended to assist practitioners both in software development and operation as well as in a sustainability audit. A tool to support CRETS4DevOps is currently being developed as a plug in for Microsoft Azure DevOps.

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2024-10-25

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Hernández Alarcón, R. F., Moros Valle, B., & Nicolás Ros, J. (2024). Catalog of sustainability guidelines to support sustainable software development and operation from requirements engineering. Revista De Investigación En Tecnologías De La Información, 12(27 (Especial), 40–52. https://doi.org/10.36825/RITI.12.27.005

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