Research Areas

Agile Software Development
▪ Large-scale Agile
▪ Scaling Frameworks
▪ Scaled Agile Framework
▪ Tools and Infrastructure Support
▪ Agile in the Public Sector
 
Empirical Studies
▪ Qualitative Methods
▪ Ethnographic Studies
▪ Systematic Literature Review/ Mapping Study
▪ Human Factors in Software Engineering
 
End User Development
▪ Design for Change
▪ Meta Design
▪ Infrastructuring
 
Global Software Engineering
▪ Improve cooperation through practices and technologies
▪ Use of social software
▪ Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
▪ Knowledge Sharing Challenges and Practices
▪ Implemented Socio-Technical Structures
▪ Tools and infrastructure support
▪ Distributed Collaboration Models
 
Security and Privacy
▪ Socio-technical Aspects in Software Security
▪ Addressing Security (as Quality Attribute) in Agile Projects
▪ Security Issues in Open-source Applications
▪ Security Issues in Start-ups
▪ Evaluation Methods of Software Security Solutions
 
Software Analytics
▪ Mining Software Repositories
▪ Advanced Developer Dashboards
▪ Performance Monitoring
▪ Text Mining/ Natural Language Processing
 
Software Architecture
▪ Microservices
▪ Architecture Recovery
▪ Activity-Centric Computing Systems
▪ Activity-Based Computing
 
Software Development Processes and Practice
▪ DevOps
▪ OpenSource Collaboration on Github
▪ Software Process Improvement
▪ Hybrid processes
▪ Continuous Software Development
 
Software Eco-Systems
▪ Analyzing Software and Ecosystem Evolution
▪ Continuous Software Development
▪ Cooperation in Software Eco-systems
 
Software Engineering Education
▪ Educational studies
▪ GSE curricula
 
User Oriented Design and Development of Software
▪ E-government
▪ Big Data Service Design
▪ Human-computer Interaction
▪ IT Infrastructures
▪ ICT for Development/ICT for Agriculture
▪ Co-design
▪ Collaborative Commons