The Software Construction Research Group (SWC) was dissolved upon the retirement of Prof. Dr. Horst Lichter on August 1, 2026.
The group was founded on March 1, 1998, as part of the Chair of Software Engineering. Here you find information about our past main activities (publications, teaching, and research projects), as well as about the people who made up the SWC.
As with any project, there is still some work to be completed on the “SWC” project. Therefore, we will continue to publish updates here regarding the research projects that are still in progress.
News
Paper accepted @ QuASoQ 2026
2 November 2026
Paper accepted @ ICSTE 2026
21 September 2026
Paper accepted @ PLoP 2026
26 August 2026
We are organizing the QuASoQ 2026 workshop
14 August 2026
Spotlights
Book "Student Thesis Projects"
7th edition available as print, ebook, and open access!
Proto-ML IDE
An IDE to support prototyping of ML solutions
Book "Software Engineering" (German)
4th edition available as print and ebook
QuASoQ
Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality
Vorkurs Informatik
coffee4j
Our combinatorial test and fault characterization framework for Java
EAdebts
Interested in our enterprise architecture debts research?
SWC @ Youtube
Watch our videos!
Research areas
Software Architecture
Software Testing
Software Evolution
DevOps & Release Engineering
Recent publications
- Alex Mattukat, Florian Braun, Horst Lichter (2026)
Can ChatGPT Generate Realistic Synthetic System Requirement Specifications? Results of a Case Study. In 21st International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2026), Benidorm, Spain, May 22-24, SciTePress – Science and Technology Publications, Lda, Vol. 1, ISBN 978-989-758-828-0, 125-138.
DOI - Ada Slupczynski, Rob H. Bemthuis, Johanna Grahl, Aleksandra Pazova, Leila Mangonaux (2026)
A Factor-Based Criteria Framework for Multi-Criteria Legacy System Modernization. In Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing - EDOC 2026 Workshops (to be published), Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham. - Ada Slupczynski, Michal Slupczynski (2026)
Beyond Development: Navigating Stakeholder Friction in Legacy Software Modernization. In Proceedings des 28. Workshop Software-Reengineering und -Evolution, GI, Bonn, Vol. 46, No. 2, 48-49. PDF - Selin Coban, David Kierdorf, Cagatay Akpinar, Horst Lichter (2026)
CellFlow: A Tool For Automatic Jupyter Notebook Workflow Visualization. In 2026 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), Amsterdam, Netherlands, June, 349-352.
DOI PDF - Alex Mattukat, Vincent Schmandt, Timo Langstrof, Michael Zerbe, Horst Lichter (2026)
A Faceted Classification of Authenticator-Centric Authentication Techniques. In Computing Research Repository (CoRR), Vol. 2604.03627, arXiv.
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