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 @ MODELWARD 2027
13 November 2026
Paper accepted @ QuASoQ 2026
2 November 2026
Paper accepted @ ICSTE 2026
21 September 2026
Paper accepted @ PLoP 2026
26 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
Authentication Methods Catalog
The 1st version of our Authentication Methods Catalog is available online!
Book "Software Engineering" (German)
4th edition available as print and ebook
QuASoQ
Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality
Vorkurs Informatik
SWC @ Youtube
Watch our videos!
Research areas
Software Architecture
Software Testing
Software Evolution
DevOps & Release Engineering
Recent publications
- Alex Mattukat, Leon Gawdi (2027)
SA-UML - Modeling Integrated Security Architectures in UML. In 15th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering (MODELWARD 2027)(to be published), Valletta, Malta, Feb 19-21, SciTePress – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. - Alex Mattukat, Vincent Schmandt, Timo Langstrof, Michael Zerbe, Horst Lichter (2026)
A Faceted Classification of Authenticator-Centric Authentication Techniques. 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, 568-578.
DOI - 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 - 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 - Alex Mattukat, Horst Lichter (2026)
A Catalog of User Authentication Patterns. In Computing Research Repository (CoRR), Vol. 2608.26955, arXiv.
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