A Systematic Literature Review on Sustainability Studies in Software Engineering

The existing literatures onsustainable development in software engineering havemoved towards new paradigms of research and it is claimed as still immature in the sustainable development community. However. the sustainability study in software engineering is a new research field and has received a noteworthy attention lately in the year 2010. Therefore, this paper aimed to contribute a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) in this field to provide an overview of sustainability development in software engineering discipline with observe the research activity and related topics, limitation, approaches, methods, and available studies. The applied method is an SLR standard protocol produced by Kitchenham et al. (2007). The investigation is based on the 3059 articles in the first iteration searching query. Currently, almost 600 of related publications are selected and only 175 as relevant for our research questions. Consequently, too few studies in the literatures pertaining to sustainability in software engineering are published, whilst it is quite active in other disciplines. So, this research will be supported the limitation in the literatures with contributes the new paradigm in sustainability software engineering.