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Environmental Sustainability in Software Process Improvement: a Systematic Mapping Study

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Trends and Applications in Software Engineering (CIMPS 2016)

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Sustainability is a main concern in our current society. One of the aspects that play an important role in supporting sustainable development is Information Technology (IT). Both software behavior and the way it is developed impact the amount of energy consumption. Thus, this paper aims to present the most recent approaches to address sustainability from a software process improvement perspective. A systematic mapping study was conducted to identify the latest efforts made in the IT field to improve sustainability. As a result, seven primary papers with initial ideas about how sustainability can be integrated into software processes were found. The lack of both proposals and empirical data suggests that further research on the topic is needed.

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  1. Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Sonora, Blvrd. Encinas y Rosales s/n Col. Centro, 83000, Hermosillo, Sonora, México

    Gabriel Alberto García-Mireles

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  1. Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Unidad Zactecas Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Jezreel Mejia

  2. Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Unidad Zactecas Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Mirna Muñoz

  3. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Coimbra, Portugal

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  4. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Inge, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Inge, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Tomas San Feliu

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García-Mireles, G.A. (2017). Environmental Sustainability in Software Process Improvement: a Systematic Mapping Study. In: Mejia, J., Muñoz, M., Rocha, Á., San Feliu, T., Peña, A. (eds) Trends and Applications in Software Engineering. CIMPS 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 537. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48523-2_7

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