Time to Say Goodbye!
The Software Construction (SWC) Teaching and Research Group will be dissolved upon the retirement of Prof. Dr. Horst Lichter on August 1, 2026.
That is why we will no longer offer any new courses and depth-area oral colloquia.
The SWC was founded on March 1, 1998, as part of the Chair of Software Engineering. On this website, you will find information about our 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.
But, there's good news, too!
Prof. Dr. Ronny Seiger is establishing the new Software Architecture teaching and research group (SWA), thereby establishing this important field — highly relevant to the software industry — within the Faculty of Computer Science.
News
Paper accepted @ SOEA4EE 2026
We are organizing the OODACH Meeting
SOFTENG 2026 Best Paper Award
ENASE 2026 Best Paper Honorable Mention
Paper published in the CSIMQ Journal
Spotlights
Proto-ML IDE
Book "Software Engineering" (German)
QuASoQ
Vorkurs Informatik
coffee4j
EAdebts
SWC @ Youtube
Book "Studienarbeiten" (German)
Research areas
Recent publications
- Ada Slupczynski, Beate Krauze, Simon Hacks (2026)
Advancing Enterprise Architecture Debt: A Work System TheoryPerspective on Modernization and Resilience. In Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (CSIMQ), RTU Press, Riga, Latvia, Vol. 46, No. March/April 2026, ISSN 2255-9922, 67-96.
DOI URL - Ada Slupczynski (2026)
A Modernization Decision Framework for Legacy Information Systems. In Francesca Zerbato, Jelena Zdravkovic, Luise Pufahl, Geert Poels, Marite Kirikova (eds.) Intelligent Information Systems CAiSE 2026, Verona, Italy, Jun 8-12, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 587, ISBN 978-3-032-27997-2, 269-277.
DOI URL - Nils Wild (2026)
Interaction-based Integration Testing of Component-based Software Systems. PhD thesis, Shaker Verlag, Düren, Aachener Informatik-Berichte, Software Engineering, No. 64, ISBN 978-3-8191-0533-3, RWTH Aachen University. PDF - 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 - 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.
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