FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
Tue 7 Jul 2026 11:30 - 11:50 at MB 3.435 - Fairness, Green and Sustainability Chair(s): Mohamad Kassab

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.

Tue 7 Jul

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11:00 - 12:30
Fairness, Green and SustainabilityResearch Papers / Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Industry Papers at MB 3.435
Chair(s): Mohamad Kassab Boston University
11:00
20m
Research paper
Carbon-Taxed Transformers: A Green Compression Pipeline for Overgrown Language Models
Research Papers
Ajmain Inqiad Alam University of Saskatchewan, Palash Ranjan Roy University of Saskatchewan, Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan, Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan, Kevin Schneider University of Saskatchewan
Pre-print
11:20
10m
Talk
Advancing Evidence-Based Social Sustainability in Software Engineering: A Research Roadmap
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Bimpe Ayoola Dalhousie University, Anielle Andrade Federal University of Pampa, Paul Ralph Dalhousie University, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary
11:30
20m
Talk
Practical Feasibility of Sustainable Software Engineering Tools and Techniques
Industry Papers
Satwik Ghanta University of Glasgow, Peggy Gregory University of Glasgow, UK, Gül Calikli University of Glasgow
11:50
20m
Talk
Adopting Concepts for Sustainable Improvement of the Developer Experience within a Medium-sized Corporation
Industry Papers
Jannik Lange Munich University of Applied Sciences, Axel Böttcher Munich University of Applied Sciences
12:10
20m
Talk
Fairness Testing of Large Language Models in Role-Playing
Research Papers
Xinyue Li Peking University, Zhenpeng Chen Tsinghua University, Jie M. Zhang Mistral AI and King's College London, Ying Xiao , Li Tianlin , Weisong Sun Nanyang Technological University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Yiling Lou University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Xuanzhe Liu Peking University
Pre-print