The Blind Men and the Elephant: Towards an Empirical Evaluation Framework for Software Sustainability

Colin C. Venters; Lydia Lau; Michael K. Griffiths; Violeta Holmes; Rupert R. Ward; Caroline Jay; Charlie E. Dibsdale; Jie Xu

doi:10.5334/jors.ao

The Blind Men and the Elephant: Towards an Empirical Evaluation Framework for Software Sustainability

Colin C. Venters, Lydia Lau, Michael K. Griffiths, Violeta Holmes, Rupert R. Ward, Caroline Jay, Charlie E. Dibsdale, Jie Xu

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Software sustainability has been identified as one of the key challenges in the development of scientific and engineering software as we move towards new paradigms of research and computing infrastructures. However, it is suggested that sustainability is not well understood within the software engineering community, which can led to ineffective and inefficient efforts to address the concept or result in its complete omission from the software system. This paper proposes a definition of software sustainability and considers how it can be measured empirically in the design and engineering process of software systems.

Original language	English
Article number	e8
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Open Research Software
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.ao
Publication status	Published - 9 Jul 2014

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Seyff, N., Betz, S., Groher, I., Stade, M., Chitchyan, R., Duboc, L., Penzenstadler, B., Venters, C. C. & Becker, C., 15 Oct 2018, Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference. Ruhe, G., Maalej, W. & Amyot, D. (eds.). IEEE, p. 370-375 6 p.
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