Evaluation of Stakeholder Mapping and Personas for Sustainable Software Development

Sustainable software development is a major challenge in the software engineering industry. Software practitioners lack practical guidance or tools for integrating social sustainability in software development processes. This study proposes stakeholder mapping and the use of sustainability personas as a framework to guide software practitioners in making decisions that support socially sustainable software development. We will evaluate the effectiveness in a randomized controlled experiment with 104 final-year undergraduate computer science students who would select features to be included in the development of a software application. We aim to show how these interventions helps to improve software practitioners' perspective of social sustainability in software development.