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

Volume 2 (2014): Issue 1

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

Open Access

|Jul 2014

Abstract

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.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.ao | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647

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Published on: Jul 9, 2014

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Keywords:

architectural-reasoning,

software architectures,

software engineering,

software quality,

software sustainability,

non-functional requirements

© 2014 Colin C Venters, Lydia Lau, Michael K Griffiths, Violeta Holmes, Rupert R Ward, Caroline Jay, Charlie E Dibsdale, Jie Xu, published by Ubiquity Press
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