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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Tailoring Requirements Negotiation to Sustainability
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Norbert Seyff
  • Stefanie Betz
  • Leticia Duboc
  • Colin Venters
  • Christoph Becker
  • Ruzanna Chitchyan
  • Birgit Penzenstadler
  • Markus Nöbauer
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISBN 978-1-5386-7418-5
Page Range 304 - 314
Event Title 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'18)
Event Type conference
Event Location Banff, AB
Event Start Date September 20 - 2018
Event End Date September 24 - 2018
Place of Publication Los Alamitos, Ca.
Publisher IEEE
Abstract Text Requirements Engineering (RE) plays a critical role in software system development and is argued to be the key leverage point for practitioners who want to design sustainable software-intensive systems. However, existing RE methods and tools do not explicitly facilitate the discussion and negotiation of sustainability-related concerns. This leads to insufficient or onedimensional perceptions of sustainability. In this paper, we discuss our understanding of sustainability and its relationship with requirements. Based on the outcomes of this discussion, we have extended the WinWin Negotiation Model by incorporating sustainability concepts so that the negotiation also includes the ability to consider the impact of requirements on sustainability. Applying this negotiation method in an exploratory industrial case study, we have learned that this approach stimulates the discussion on sustainability and its multiple dimensions. It also allows practitioners to reflect on requirements and their effects on sustainability. However, we have also observed that further in-depth requirements analysis is needed to analyse the long-term effects of requirements regarding sustainability.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/RE.2018.00038
Other Identification Number merlin-id:17836
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