5 papers
The Dependency Black Hole
Ehsan Zabardast, Bhuwan Paudel, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta
Microservice architectures promise independent evolution through loose coupling, yet large systems often exhibit strong dependency concentration around a small set of services. In…
Quo Vadis, Code Review? Exploring the Future of Code Review
Michael Dorner, Andreas Bauer, Darja Å mite +6
Context: Code review has long been a core practice in collaborative software engineering. As automation becomes increasingly embedded in development workflows, the role and functio…
Towards a Software Architecture Description for Tax Compliance
Michael Dorner, Oliver Treidler, Tom-Eric Kunz +5
The internal reuse of software components owned by organizational units in different countries constitutes an implicit form of licensing that may be taxable under international reg…
Towards a Goal-Centric Assessment of Requirements Engineering Methods for Privacy by Design
Oleksandr Kosenkov, Ehsan Zabardast, Jannik Fischbach +2
Implementing privacy by design (PbD) according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is met with a growing number of requirements engineering (RE) approaches. However, t…
Privacy by Design: Aligning GDPR and Software Engineering Specifications with a Requirements Engineering Approach
Oleksandr Kosenkov, Ehsan Zabardast, Davide Fucci +2
Context: Consistent requirements and system specifications are essential for the compliance of software systems towards the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Both artefact…