Special Issue "Software Engineering Practices, Challenges and Trends"

Dear Colleagues,

The growing need for innovation in the technology sector has led to a rising demand for software engineering professionals, while also requiring more efficient practices and strategies. Software engineering professionals must have a balanced set of soft and technical skills that allow them to work in heterogeneous and dynamic teams, in order to efficiently develop high-quality software products to solve real-world problems. In this competitive and dynamic context, the use of best practices, as well as the constant search for innovative and efficient practices, is of central importance. At the same time, it also raises new challenges.

This Special Issue aims to present the state-of-the-art regarding practices, challenges and trends in software engineering. Research topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Academia-industry case studies.
• Advanced topics in software engineering.
• Agile methodologies, practices and challenges.
• Emerging practices in software process and architecture.
• Future trends in software engineering.
• Innovative lab experiences.
• Requirements engineering.
• Software architecture.
• Software deployment.
• Software engineering academia and industrial failures.
• Software engineering education and training.
• Software engineering in industry.
• Software engineering practice.
• Software engineering skills and professionalism.
• Software engineering tools and environments.
• Software maintenance.
• Software process.
• Software quality and project management.
• Sustainability in software engineering.
• Testing, verification and validation.

Dr. Fernando Reinaldo Ribeiro
Dr. José Metrôlho
Dr. Javier Berrocal
Prof. Dr. Luis L. Fernández-Sanz
Guest Editors

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• agile methodologies
• requirements engineering
• software engineering
• software engineering education
• software engineering skills
• software engineering practices
• software project management
• software quality