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TY - GEN
T1 - Values-first software engineering
T2 - 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion
AU - Ferrario, Maria Angela Felicita Cristina
AU - Simm, William Alexander
AU - Gradinar, Adrian Ioan
AU - Forshaw, Stephen
AU - Smith, Marcia
AU - Smith, Ian Craig
N1 - © ACM, 2016. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in ICSE '16 Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3889160.2889219
PY - 2016/5/14
Y1 - 2016/5/14
N2 - The realization that software has a far reaching impact on politics, society and the environment is not new. However, only recently software impact has been explicitly described as `systemic' and framed around complex social problems such as sustainability. We argue that `wicked' social problems are consequences of the interplay between complex economical, technical and political interactions and their underlying value choices. Such choices are guided by specific sets of human values that have been found in all cultures by extensive evidence-based research. The aim of this paper is to give more visibility to the interrelationship between values and SE choices. To this end, we first introduce the concept of Values-First SE and reflect on its implications for software development. Our contribution to SE is embedding the principles of values research in the SE decision making process and extracting lessons learned from practice.
AB - The realization that software has a far reaching impact on politics, society and the environment is not new. However, only recently software impact has been explicitly described as `systemic' and framed around complex social problems such as sustainability. We argue that `wicked' social problems are consequences of the interplay between complex economical, technical and political interactions and their underlying value choices. Such choices are guided by specific sets of human values that have been found in all cultures by extensive evidence-based research. The aim of this paper is to give more visibility to the interrelationship between values and SE choices. To this end, we first introduce the concept of Values-First SE and reflect on its implications for software development. Our contribution to SE is embedding the principles of values research in the SE decision making process and extracting lessons learned from practice.
KW - agile methods
KW - action research
KW - design thinking
KW - values theory
KW - socially conscious software
U2 - 10.1145/2889160.2889219
DO - 10.1145/2889160.2889219
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450342056
SP - 553
EP - 562
BT - ICSE '16 Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion
PB - ACM
CY - New York
Y2 - 14 May 2016 through 22 May 2016
ER -