SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08981v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 03:48:30 GMT
• Title: SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
• Authors: Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi,
• Abstract summary: We introduce SEER, a framework which addresses sustainability concerns in the early software development phase.<n>The framework operates in three stages: (i) it identifies sustainability requirements relevant to a specific software product from a general taxonomy; (ii) it evaluates how sustainable system requirements are based on the identified SRs; and (iii) it optimize system requirements that fail to satisfy any SR.<n>Results generated using Gemini 2.5 reasoning model demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in accurately identifying a broad range of sustainability concerns across diverse domains.
• Score: 3.8168092489216385
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The rapid expansion of software development has significant environmental, technical, social, and economic impacts. Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 compels developers to adopt sustainable practices. Existing methods mostly offer high-level guidelines, which are time-consuming to implement and rely on team adaptability. Moreover, they focus on design or implementation, while sustainability assessment should start at the requirements engineering phase. In this paper, we introduce SEER, a framework which addresses sustainability concerns in the early software development phase. The framework operates in three stages: (i) it identifies sustainability requirements (SRs) relevant to a specific software product from a general taxonomy; (ii) it evaluates how sustainable system requirements are based on the identified SRs; and (iii) it optimizes system requirements that fail to satisfy any SR. The framework is implemented using the reasoning capabilities of large language models and the agentic RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) approach. SEER has been experimented on four software projects from different domains. Results generated using Gemini 2.5 reasoning model demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in accurately identifying a broad range of sustainability concerns across diverse domains.

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