Sustainability is gaining increasing importance in software engineering education, as future software engineers must understand the environmental and societal effects of the systems they create. To prepare students for these challenges, it is essential to integrate sustainability into practical courses where students can explore its principles and real-world implications. However, there are still limited examples of how sustainability can be effectively embedded into existing university curricula, highlighting a significant gap in educational practice. In this paper, we describe an experience report of a practical and agile-oriented undergraduate software engineering course that integrates sustainability. We found that the students were successful in identifying various effects of a software system on different sustainability dimensions. Furthermore, sustainability aspects can be seamlessly integrated into existing courses with minimal effort. Therefore, we share our learning materials with the hope that they will inspire and be reused by other software engineering educators.

Sustainability has become a widely discussed topic in software and requirements engineering. However, in the context of agile software development processes, little is known about how to identify potential sustainability effects of software systems. The goal of our research is to investigate how requirements engineering knowledge on sustainability can be incorporated into agile frameworks like Scrum. In this experience paper, we present the results of two case studies from ongoing agile development projects where the Sustainability Awareness Framework was applied. Within workshops, more than 20 potential sustainability effects have been identified for each of the systems based on their product visions. Furthermore, we analyzed the product backlogs and found that more than half of the backlog items of both systems can be related to at least one of the identified sustainability effects. This suggests that a sustainability analysis of backlog items can support the early identification of potential sustainability effects in Scrum. Our findings suggest that the Sustainability Awareness Framework can be successfully used by practitioners in agile settings based on the guidelines provided by the Sustainability Awareness Framework.

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in software engineering, especially in requirements engineering. Several requirements engineering approaches have already been proposed to deal with the question of how impacts of requirements on sustainability dimensions can be identified and managed. However, in contrast to requirements engineering, little is known about how to identify the potential sustainability effects of software systems in agile software development and how to foster the agile development of sustainable software. The goal of our research is to investigate how sustainability can be incorporated into Scrum. Our ongoing work targets the development of a Sustainability-Aware Scrum Framework that integrates requirements engineering knowledge into Scrum to raise awareness around the sustainability impacts of software systems and to make software systems more sustainable. The main contribution of our work is a set of recommendations on how the Scrum framework, as the major agile development process, can be extended towards sustainability. Furthermore, we discuss an evaluation plan, present a prototype of a software tool that supports tracking possible sustainability impacts of user stories, and provide preliminary results.

Abstract Various approaches toward the development of sustainable software systems have been proposed by the requirements engineering community over the last decade. We conducted a systematic mapping study, analyzed 55 publications, and identified 29 approaches that have been published since the year 2000. We analyzed how the approaches evolved over time and how the publications and authors are influenced by each other. Furthermore, the approaches are analyzed in terms of their supported requirements engineering activities, along with the evidence provided in the publications. Additionally, we also analyzed which sustainability definitions have been used, if an iterative application of the approaches is discussed, and if the approaches also provide a tool-support for practitioners. We noticed an increase of publications on requirements engineering approaches toward sustainability in the last years, whereas a majority discuss sustainability based on the same multi-dimensional concept. Although different case studies have been already conducted, we noticed a lack of an industrial application. Our main findings concern the need of an evaluation on how the proposed requirements engineering approaches can also be applied in agile software development processes. Additionally, we also promote the development of supporting software tools to support practitioners in adapting the proposed approaches.

Sustainability has become an important topic in the field of requirements engineering. In general, five sustainability dimensions can be distinguished: economical, environmental, technical, social and individual. Software requirements can have positive and negative impacts on these different dimensions. A number of methods and frameworks have been already proposed that deal with the question on how impacts of software requirements on sustainability can be identified and managed as part of requirements engineering. Some open questions, however, remain: How can sustainability be supported by using agile development practices from frameworks like Scrum? Is it productive to consider sustainability in sprint planning meetings or product reviews? Is it useful to add sustainability aspects to acceptance criteria of user stories or a definition of done? This paper describes an ongoing doctoral study that attempts to find answers on the prior questions. The goal is to develop a sustainability-aware Scrum framework inspired by existing requirements engineering methods to improve the sustainability impacts of software systems and to make software as sustainable as possible.