Practical Feasibility of Sustainable Software Engineering Tools and Techniques
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.
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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 20mResearch 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 10mTalk | 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 20mTalk | 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 20mTalk | 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 20mTalk | 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 | ||