The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Systems Engineering: Eliciting sustainability requirements

Brooks, Ian

Abstract

This paper discusses a PhD research project testing the hypothesis that using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) [18] as explicit inputs to drive the Software Requirements Engineering process will result in requirements with improved sustainability benefits. The research has adopted the Design Science Research Method (DSRM) [21] to test a process named SDG Assessment for Requirements Elicitation (SDGARE). Three DSRM cycles are being used to test the hypothesis in safety-critical, high-precision, software-intensive systems in aerospace and healthcare. Initial results from the first two DSRM cycles support the hypothesis. However, these cycles are in a plan-driven (waterfall) development context and future research agenda would be a similar application in an Agile development context.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S)
• Start Date: Jun 22, 2020
• End Date: Jun 27, 2020
• Acceptance Date: Apr 1, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jun 27, 2020
• Publication Date: Jun 27, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jun 18, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 19, 2020
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Volume: 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S2020)
• Pages: 196-199
• Series Title: International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S)
• Series Number: 7
• Book Title: ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability
• ISBN: 9781450375955
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401359
• Keywords: CCS Concepts:; Software and its engineering → Requirements analysis;; Social and professional topics → Sustainability Additional Key Words and Phrases: sustainability, requirements engineering, sustainable development goals, SDG, aerospace, cancer
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6037227
• Additional Information: The author, Ian Brooks, retains the copyright to this paper and ACM has non-exclusive licence to publish.