The Essence of Software Engineering

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of adesso AG, adesso gathered some of the pioneers of software engineering including Manfred Broy, Ivar Jacobson and Carlo Ghezzi at a special symposium,  where they presented their thoughts about latest software engineering research and which are part of this book. This way it offers readers a concise overview of the essence of software engineering, providing valuable insights into the latest methodological research findings and adesso’s experience applying these results in real-world projects.

1 The Leading Role of Software and Systems Architecture in the Age of Digitization.- 2 Formal Methods and Agile Development: Towards a Happy Marriage.- 3 Escaping Method Prison – On the Road to Real Software Engineering.- 4 What is software?: The Role of Empirical Methods in Answering the Question.- 5 Only the Architecture You Need.- 6 Variability in standard software products Introducing software product line engineering to the insurance industry.- 7 Using Design Thinking for Requirements Engineering in the Context of Digitalization and Digital Transformation – a Motivation and an Experience Report.- 8 Towards Deviceless Edge Computing: Challenges, Design Aspects & Models for Serverless paradigm at the Edge .- 9 Data-driven decisions and actions in today’s software development.- 10 Software Architecture: Past, Present, Future.- 11 Software Product Lines.- 12 Enabling Flexible and Robust Business Process Automation for the Agile Enterprise.- 13 Achievements, Failures, and the Future of Model-based Software Engineering.

Prof. Dr. Volker Gruhn holds the Chair for Software Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research focus is on methods for industrial software engineering, as well as the effects of digital transformation on enterprises. He co-founded adesso AG in 1997 and is chairman of the supervisory board today.