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Context: Start-up companies have become an important supplier of innovation and software-intensive products. The flexibility and reactiveness of start-ups enables fast development and launch of innovative products. However, a majority of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Eriks Klotins , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek

The rapid expansion of software development has significant environmental, technical, social, and economic impacts. Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 compels developers to adopt sustainable practices.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mandira Roy , Novarun Deb , Nabendu Chaki , Agostino Cortesi

This paper presents the core principles of reliability in software engineering - outlining why reliability testing is critical and specifying the process of measuring reliability. The paper provides insight for both novice and experts in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Kevin Taylor-Sakyi

Sustainability (defined as 'the capacity to keep up') encompasses a wide set of aims: ranging from energy efficient software products (environmental sustainability), reduction of software development and maintenance costs (economic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Ruzanna Chitchyan , Joost Noppen , Iris Groher

Success and failure in software engineering are still among the least understood phenomena in the discipline. In a recent special journal issue on the topic, Mantyla et al. started discussing these topics from different angles; the authors…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Damian A. Tamburri , Fabio Palomba , Rick Kazman

Sustainable Software Engineering (SSE) is slowly becoming an industry need for reasons including reputation enhancement, improved profits and more efficient practices. However, SSE has many definitions, and this is a challenge for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Satwik Ghanta , Peggy Gregory , Gul Calikli

Testing is a core software development activity that has huge potential to make software development more sustainable. In this paper, we discuss how environmental, social, economic, and technical sustainability map onto the activities of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Armin Beer , Michael Felderer , Tobias Lorey , Stefan Mohacsi

Higher education provides a solid theoretical and practical, but mostly technical, background for the aspiring software developer. Research, however, has shown that graduates still fall short of the expectations of industry. These…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Wouter Groeneveld , Joost Vennekens , Kris Aerts

Scientific open-source software (Sci-OSS) projects are critical for advancing research, yet sustaining these projects long-term remains a major challenge. This paper explores the sustainability of Sci-OSS hosted on GitHub, focusing on two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sharif Ahmed , Addi Malviya Thakur , Gregory R. Watson , Nasir U. Eisty

With the climate crisis looming, engineering sustainable software systems become crucial to optimize resource utilization, minimize environmental impact, and foster a greener, more resilient digital ecosystem. For developers, getting access…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Priyavanshi Pathania , Rohit Mehra , Vibhu Saujanya Sharma , Vikrant Kaulgud , Sanjay Podder , Adam P. Burden

This systematic literature review examines the critical challenges and solutions related to scalability and maintainability in Machine Learning (ML) systems. As ML applications become increasingly complex and widespread across industries,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Karthik Shivashankar , Ghadi S. Al Hajj , Antonio Martini

Embedded systems are ubiquitous and play critical roles in management systems for industry and transport. Software failures in these domains may lead to loss of production or even loss of life, so the software in these systems needs to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Per Erik Strandberg

Research software is a class of software developed to support research. Today a wealth of such software is created daily in universities, government, and commercial research enterprises worldwide. The sustainability of this software faces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jeffrey C. Carver , Ian A. Cosden , Chris Hill , Sandra Gesing , Daniel S. Katz

Background: The software engineering community has increasingly conducted systematic literature reviews (SLR) as a means to summarize evidence from different studies and bring to light the state of the art of a given research topic. While…

Software startup companies develop innovative, software-intensive products within limited time frames and with few resources, searching for sustainable and scalable business models. Software startups are quite distinct from traditional…

Software systems are a significant contributor to global sustainability concerns, demanding that environmental, social, technical, and economic factors be systematically addressed from the initial requirements engineering phase. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mandira Roy , Novarun Deb , Nabendu Chaki , Agostino Cortesi

While Sustainable Software Engineering (SSE) tools are widely studied in academia, their practical feasibility in industrial workflows, particularly in regulated environments, remains poorly understood. This study investigates how software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Satwik Ghanta , Peggy Gregory , Gul Calikli

Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) are a widely employed research method in software engineering. However, there are several problems with SLRs, including the enormous time and effort to conduct them and the lack of obvious impacts of SLR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Vinicius dos Santos , Rick Kazman , Elisa Yumi Nakagawa

Software Engineering is the process of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach that has significant impact on large-scale and complex software development. Scores of well-established software process models have long been adopted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Md Jobair Hossain Faruk , Santhiya Subramanian , Hossain Shahriar , Maria Valero , Xia Li , Masrura Tasnim

Like other engineering disciplines, software engineering should also have principles to guide the construction of sustainable computer applications. Tangible properties include a) unlimited scalability, b) maximal reproducibility, and c)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Justin Shi