Perspectives on the Future of Software Engineering - Essays in Honor of Dieter Rombach ISBN: 3642373941 | 2013 | PDF | 369 pages | 4.7 MB The dependence on quality software in all areas of life is what makes software engineering a key discipline for today’s society. Thus, over the last few decades it has been increasingly recognized that it is particularly important to demonstrate the value of software engineering methods in real-world environments, a task which is the focus of empirical software engineering.