Pathways in Software Engineering—On the Development and Operations of Large-scale Software Systems

Software is pervasive in today's technical systems in industry and everyday life. Modern enterprises strategically invest into software and often have their own software development departments. Software engineering is the exciting discipline that addresses the challenges of today’s software projects: cost and time pressure and software quality. This book aims at uncovering the implicit assumptions of today’s leading software engineering paradigms. It presents knowledge shared by seasoned experts in the field which is usually gained by experience in software engineering projects or communication between software engineers only. This way, the book wants to empower the ambitious software developer to become the project’s systems thinker and systems strategist by telling the story of successful software engineering projects.

Dirk Draheim holds a Diploma in Computer Science from the Technische Universitat Berlin since 1994 and a PhD in Computer Science from the Freie Universitat Berlin since 2002. Since 1999 he gives lectures on Software Engineering at the Freie Universitat Berlin. From 2004 to 2006 he was a research associate in the project "Typed User Interfaces", which is granted by the German Research Foundation DFG. In summer 2006 he was lecturer in human-computer interaction at the University of Auckland. Since summer 2006 until autumn 2008 he was senior researcher at the SCCH (Software Competence Center Hagenberg) in the position of the Area Manager Database Technology. Furthermore, he was guest professor in software engineering at the University of Mannheim in winter 2006 and guest lecturer in applied computer science at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in summer 2007 and summer 2008. Since autumn 2008 he is head of the IT department of the University of Innsbruck. Dirk Draheim is interested in system modeling, semantic web, web applications, and databases.