Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2020

This open access book provides an overview of the dissertations of the eleven nominees for the Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering in 2020. The prize, kindly sponsored by the Gerlind & Ernst Denert Stiftung, is awarded for excellent work within the discipline of Software Engineering, which includes methods, tools and procedures for better and efficient development of high quality software. An essential requirement for the nominated work is its applicability and usability in industrial practice.

The book contains eleven papers that describe the works by Jonathan Brachthäuser (EPFL Lausanne) entitled What You See Is What You Get: Practical Effect Handlers in Capability-Passing Style, Mojdeh Golagha’s (Fortiss, Munich) thesis How to Effectively Reduce Failure Analysis Time?, Nikolay Harutyunyan’s (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) work on Open Source Software Governance, Dominic Henze’s (TU Munich) research about Dynamically Scalable Fog Architectures, Anne Hess’s (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern) work on Crossing Disciplinary Borders to Improve Requirements Communication, Istvan Koren’s (RWTH Aachen U) thesis DevOpsUse: A Community-Oriented Methodology for Societal Software Engineering, Yannic Noller’s (NU Singapore) work on Hybrid Differential Software Testing, Dominic Steinhofel’s (TU Darmstadt) thesis entitled Ever Change a Running System: Structured Software Reengineering Using Automatically Proven-Correct Transformation Rules, Peter Wägemann’s (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) work Static Worst-Case Analyses and Their Validation Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, Michael von Wenckstern’s (RWTH Aachen U) research on Improving the Model-Based Systems Engineering Process, and Franz Zieris’s (FU Berlin) thesis on Understanding How Pair Programming Actually Works in Industry: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Dynamics – which actually won the award.

The chapters describe key findings of the respective works, show their relevance and applicability to practice and industrial software engineering projects, and provide additional information and findings that have only been discovered afterwards, e.g. when applying the results in industry. This way, the book is not only interesting to other researchers, but also to industrial software professionals who would like to learn about the application of state-of-the-art methods in their daily work.

• Software Engineering
• Software Development
• Requirements Engineering
• Software Modeling
• Software Research
• Open Access
• Ernst Denert Award

• Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

  Michael Felderer

• Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  Wilhelm Hasselbring

• Corporate Research, ABB, Ladenburg, Germany

  Heiko Koziolek

• Institute of Computer Science, Technical University Munich, Garching, Germany

  Florian Matthes

• Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Lutz Prechelt

• Program Structures and Data Organization, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Ralf Reussner

• Software Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

  Bernhard Rumpe

• Software Engineering and Automotive Informatics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

  Ina Schaefer

The editors consist of the scientific jury responsible for the selection of the nominees and the winner of the Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2020. The book is edited in commitment by the Austrian, German and Suisse societies for informatics (GI, OCG, SI).