A View of the Technical, Individual, and Social Dimensions of Sustainable Software Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

Sustainability highlights concerns for future generations and has also become an important topic in software engineering. Although some organisations are eager to deliver sustainable software systems, their software development life cycle are not suitable for identifying the effects of the software system on sustainability, and neither are their software development teams qualified to meet sustainability requirements. This work aims to identify and analyse the current state of sustainability in Software Engineering from the technical, individual, and social dimensions. We conducted a Systematic Literature Review. It includes a snowballing approach based on a seminar paper. We identified nine primary studies, described the topics they covered, the type of contribution, and the dimensions addressed. Moreover, we classified the solutions and assessed if they had been used in practice as well as the phase of the software development cycle addressed. Some open questions were also identified. These findings may help software developers to become aware of sustainability requirements that must be satisfied by sustainable software systems.