Gul Calikli

Satwik Ghanta, Peggy Gregory, Gul Calikli

While Sustainable Software Engineering (SSE) tools are widely studied in academia, their practical feasibility in industrial workflows, particularly in regulated environments, remains poorly understood. This study investigates how software practitioners perceive the feasibility of existing SSE tools and techniques, and examines the technical, organizational, and cultural factors shaping their adoption in practice. We identified prominent categories of SSE tools targeting energy consumption, green refactoring, and workload management, and evaluated them along three practitioner-relevant dimensions: installation, input requirements, and output formats. These were presented through an interactive web application and explored in workshops with 16 practitioners from a regulated financial-sector organization, followed by a survey of 27 software practitioners. Our findings suggest that the practitioners strongly favored tools that integrate into existing IDEs or pipelines, require minimal and locally scoped data access, and provide interpretable, actionable outputs such as dashboards or automated refactoring suggestions. In regulated settings, compliance requirements, approval processes, and time constraints significantly shaped feasibility perceptions. Our contribution lies in providing empirical evidence of these preferences alongside other factors that affect regulated industrial contexts. The findings offer actionable guidance for designing SSE tools that better align with real-world development workflows and organizational constraints.

Rashidah Kasauli, Eric Knauss, Benjamin Kanagwa et al.

In the last decades, agile methods had a huge impact on how software is developed. In many cases, this has led to significant benefits, such as quality and speed of software deliveries to customers. However, safety-critical systems have widely been dismissed from benefiting from agile methods. Products that include safety critical aspects are therefore faced with a situation in which the development of safety-critical parts can significantly limit the potential speed-up through agile methods, for the full product, but also in the non-safety critical parts. For such products, the ability to develop safety-critical software in an agile way will generate a competitive advantage. In order to enable future research in this important area, we present in this paper a mapping of the current state of practice based on {a mixed method approach}. Starting from a workshop with experts from six large Swedish product development companies we develop a lens for our analysis. We then present a systematic mapping study on safety-critical systems and agile development through this lens in order to map potential benefits, challenges, and solution candidates for guiding future research.