A proposed recommender system for eliciting software sustainability requirements

Sustainability is not considered sufficiently in developing modern software systems. In spite of the looming threats of global climate change and environmental degradation [1], software companies are more concerned with product “time-to-market” than long-term product impacts. The research goal of this project is to overcome the barriers of incorporating sustainability into the software engineering process through the use of a recommender system to be used during requirements engineering. This system will recommend the kinds of sustainability requirements that should be considered in a given system, based on application domain, deployment locale, etc, and in so doing will lessen the workload of eliciting appropriate sustainability requirements. This research builds on an ongoing research project on Software Engineering for Sustainability.