The Essence of 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. Dr. Rüdiger Striemer was a member of the executive board of adesso AG from 2001 to 2015, and is today responsible for the software development at adesso's national companies in Switzerland, Austria and Turkey.

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 ofModel-based Software Engineering.