1 The Leading Role of Software and Systems Architecture in the Age of Digitization.- 2 Formal Methods and Agile Development: Towards a Happy Marriage.- 3 Escaping Method Prison – On the Road to Real Software Engineering.- 4 What is software?: The Role of Empirical Methods in Answering the Question.- 5 Only the Architecture You Need.- 6 Variability in standard software products Introducing software product line engineering to the insurance industry.- 7 Using Design Thinking for Requirements Engineering in the Context of Digitalization and Digital Transformation – a Motivation and an Experience Report.- 8 Towards Deviceless Edge Computing: Challenges, Design Aspects & Models for Serverless paradigm at the Edge .- 9 Data-driven decisions and actions in today’s software development.- 10 Software Architecture: Past, Present, Future.- 11 Software Product Lines.- 12 Enabling Flexible and Robust Business Process Automation for the Agile Enterprise.- 13 Achievements, Failures, and the Future ofModel-based Software Engineering.

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This book includes contributions by leading researchers and industry thought leaders on various topics related to the essence of software engineering and their application in industrial projects. It offers a broad overview of research findings dealing with current practical software engineering issues and also pointers to potential future developments.
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of adesso AG, adesso gathered some of the pioneers of software engineering including Manfred Broy, Ivar Jacobson and Carlo Ghezzi at a special symposium,  where they presented their thoughts about latest software engineering research and which are part of this book. This way it offers readers a concise overview of the essence of software engineering, providing valuable insights into the latest methodological research findings and adesso’s experience applying these results in real-world projects.

Offers a broad overview of the essence of software engineering in 13 contributions written by leading researchers and industry thought leaders Highlights the mutual beneficial exchange of research findings and industrial experience Provides a first look at potential future applications for new developments

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