The Software and Systems Engineering Group is part of the Computer Science Institute within the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Informatics at the Technical University of Cottbus. Since it was founded the group is headed by Prof. Dr. Claus Lewerentz.

Research and teaching of the group members is concerned with Software Engineering, i.e. managing and supporting the entire process of software development. We emphasize a systemoriented viewpoint, because the requirements on programs can not be understood without carefully taking into account the entire application environment. As software engineers we contribute to the design and construction of large systems comprising technical components with their underlying physical processes and human beings with their particular work organisation.

An important objective of our work is to develop software-intensive systems in a way which is well appropriate for the addressed problems, the human beings involved, and the applied methods and techniques. Computer-based systems have to be manageable in their usage and adaptable and flexible according to changing context conditions.

Our core competences are found in three areas of software engineering, namely project management, system analysis and design, and quality management. In particular we are active in the following fields:

• project management
  • usage of user centered process models for software development
  • systematic personal software development (personal software processes)
  • identification and management of goal conflicts in software development

• system analysis, design and construction
  • objectoriented analysis and design
  • development of reusable software (design and usage of class libraries and application frameworks)
  • software reengineering
  • formal specification methods

• quality management
  • application of metrics for software quality assessment
  • review techniques
  • formal verification techniques
  • online diagnostics of software