Integrating novel software systems in our society, economy and environment can have far-reaching effects. As a result, software systems should be designed in such a way as to maintain or improve the sustainability of their intended socio-technical systems. However, a paradigm shift is required to raise awareness of software professionals on the potential sustainability effects of software systems. While Requirements Engineering is considered the key for driving this change, requirements engineers lack the knowledge, experience and methodological support for acting as facilitators for a broader discussion on sustainability effects. This paper presents a question-based framework for raising awareness of the potential effects of software systems on sustainability, as the first step towards enabling the required paradigm shift. An evaluation study of the framework was conducted with four groups of computer science students. The results of the study indicate that the framework is applicable to different types of systems and helps to facilitate discussions about the potential effects that software systems could have on sustainability.

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可持续性需求工程：为更美好的明天设计软件系统的意识框架

在我们的社会、经济和环境中集成新的软件系统可以产生深远的影响。因此，软件系统的设计方式应该能够保持或提高其预期社会技术系统的可持续性。但是，需要进行范式转变以提高软件专业人员对软件系统潜在可持续性影响的认识。虽然需求工程被认为是推动这一变化的关键，但需求工程师缺乏知识、经验和方法论支持，无法充当更广泛讨论可持续性影响的促进者。本文提出了一个基于问题的框架，以提高对软件系统对可持续性的潜在影响的认识，这是实现所需范式转变的第一步。该框架的评估研究由四组计算机科学学生进行。研究结果表明，该框架适用于不同类型的系统，并有助于促进有关软件系统可能对可持续性产生的潜在影响的讨论。