Sustainability in Software Product Lines: Report on Discussion Panel at SPLC 2014
It addresses sustainability issues for software product line practitioners, but is incremental as it reports on existing discussions rather than introducing new research.
The report explores the role of sustainability in software product line engineering, based on a panel discussion at SPLC 2014, but does not present specific results or numbers.
Sustainability (defined as 'the capacity to keep up') encompasses a wide set of aims: ranging from energy efficient software products (environmental sustainability), reduction of software development and maintenance costs (economic sustainability), to employee and end-user wellbeing (social sustainability). In this report we explore the role that sustainability plays in software product line engineering (SPL). The report is based on the 'Sustainability in Software Product Lines' panel held at SPLC 2014.