Developing a Model-driven Socio-environmental Auditing Tool

Abstract

Responsible enterprises have many options when it comes to selecting a socio-environmental auditing (SEA) method, however, since every method comes with its own tool, organisations are unable to find tool support for the methods they adapt or develop in-house. Consequentially, organisations are forced to 1) spread their data accross multiple tools and create a single aggregated report manually or 2) develop their own tool. We propose the conceptual meta model of an SEA method, which we rely on to subsequently design the openSEA tool. This proof of concept tool supports any SEA method that can be described using the conceptual meta model and as such successfully decouples SEA method from SEA tool. We evaluate our through conducting interviews with two responsible enterprises.