A focus group for operationalizing software sustainability with the MEASURE platform

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A focus group for operationalizing software sustainability with the MEASURE platform. / Condori-Fernandez, Nelly; Bagnato, Alessandra; Kern, Eva.
In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2286, 2018, p. 7-18.

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title = "A focus group for operationalizing software sustainability with the MEASURE platform",
abstract = "Measuring the sustainability of software products is sill in the early stages of development. However, there are different approaches how to assess sustainability issues of software and its engineering - including metrics with a practical orientation as well as more theoretical models covering software sustainability. As an example for one step in moving forward bringing existing approaches together, the paper presents a focus group study conducted to find out in which extent the quality attributes related to the technical sustainability can be measured by using existing metrics available at the MEASURE platform. Our first results show that the extent of measurability varies across the software development phases. Functional correctness, robustness, maturity, and testability are the most measurable quality attributes.",
keywords = "Focus group, Measurement, Software metrics, Technical sustainability, Sustainability Science",
author = "Nelly Condori-Fernandez and Alessandra Bagnato and Eva Kern",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 CEUR-WS.; 4th International Workshop on Measurement and Metrics for Green and Sustainable Software Systems - MeGSuS 2018, MeGSuS2018 ; Conference date: 09-10-2018",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
volume = "2286",
pages = "7--18",
journal = "CEUR Workshop Proceedings",
issn = "1613-0073",
publisher = "Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen",

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AU - Condori-Fernandez, Nelly

AU - Bagnato, Alessandra

AU - Kern, Eva

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PY - 2018

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N2 - Measuring the sustainability of software products is sill in the early stages of development. However, there are different approaches how to assess sustainability issues of software and its engineering - including metrics with a practical orientation as well as more theoretical models covering software sustainability. As an example for one step in moving forward bringing existing approaches together, the paper presents a focus group study conducted to find out in which extent the quality attributes related to the technical sustainability can be measured by using existing metrics available at the MEASURE platform. Our first results show that the extent of measurability varies across the software development phases. Functional correctness, robustness, maturity, and testability are the most measurable quality attributes.

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KW - Measurement

KW - Software metrics

KW - Technical sustainability

KW - Sustainability Science

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JO - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

JF - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

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