Time to Say Goodbye!
The Software Construction Research Group (SWC) was dissolved upon the retirement of Prof. Dr. Horst Lichter on August 1, 2026.
The SWC 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 @ PLoP 2026
26 August 2026
We are organizing the QuASoQ 2026 workshop
14 August 2026
Paper accepted @ SOEA4EE 2026
30 July 2026
We are organizing the OODACH Meeting
1 July 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
- Simon Hacks, Ada Slupczynski (2026)
Advancing Enterprise Architecture Debt: Insights from Work System Theory. In Rébecca Deneckère, Marite Kirikova, Janis Grabis (eds.) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research - 24th International Conference on Business Informatics Research, BIR 2025, Riga, Latvia, September 17-19, 2025, Proceedings, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 562, ISBN 978-3-032-04375-7, 107-123.
DOI PDF - Alex Mattukat, Horst Lichter (2026)
A Catalog of User Authentication Patterns. In Computing Research Repository (CoRR), Vol. 2608.26955, arXiv.
DOI URL - 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 - Ada Slupczynski (2026)
Toward a Holistic Enterprise Modernization Lifecycle - Comparison of Existing Processes and Frameworks. In Proceedings des 28. Workshop Software-Reengineering und -Evolution, GI, Bonn, Vol. 46, No. 2, 44-45. 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.
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