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From Requirements Engineering to Green Requirements Engineering

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Green in Software Engineering

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After business analysis and software economics lay the foundation, requirements engineering structures the phase of eliciting, analysing, specifying and verifying the objectives and constraints for a software system under development. It is not yet fully investigated how to systematically integrate environmental sustainability into this discipline in order to achieve ‘greener’ software systems. This chapter outlines an approach of how to incorporate environmental sustainability as an objective from the very start in requirements engineering by using a reference artefact model with a goal model and continuous deduction and refinement. Thereby, software engineers are enabled to strategically align the objective of environmental sustainability with the other objectives for the software system under development.

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    http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/carboncalculator

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    http://storyofstuff.com/

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    http://www.zipcar.com/

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    http://www.drive-now.com/

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    Disclaimer: The examples provided within this chapter are not the results of an official collaboration with Facebook, but rather the re-elicitation by the author.

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    http://www.uncsd2012.org/

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    http://www.se4s.org

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Ankita Raturi and Debra Richardson for feedback on earlier versions of this chapter as well as Daniel Mendez, Henning Femmer, Alejandra Rodriguez, Oliver Feldmann, Susanne Klein, Manfred Broy, Daniel Pargman, Joseph Tainter, Lorenz Hilty, Bill Tomlinson, Juliet Norton, Coral Calero, Xavier Franch, Wolfgang Lohmann, Beth Karlin and Allison Cook for helpful and inspiring discussions. Furthermore, I thank my students Joseph Mehrabi, Noel Canlas, Evelyn Luu and Kuan Chi Tseng for allowing me to use their system vision illustration for the Citizen Muscle Boot Camp. This work is part of the DFG EnviroSiSE project under grant number PE2044/1-1.

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Penzenstadler, B. (2015). From Requirements Engineering to Green Requirements Engineering. In: Calero, C., Piattini, M. (eds) Green in Software Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08581-4_7

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