Accelerating Digital Transformation: 10 Years of Software Center

This book celebrates the 10-year anniversary of Software Center (a collaboration between 18 European companies and five Swedish universities) by presenting some of the most impactful and relevant journal or conference papers that researchers in the center have published over the last decade.

The book is organized around the five themes around which research in Software Center is organized, i.e. Continuous Delivery, Continuous Architecture, Metrics, Customer Data and Ecosystems Driven Development, and AI Engineering. The focus of the Continuous Delivery theme is to help companies to continuously build high quality products with the right degree of automation. The Continuous Architecture theme addresses challenges that arise when balancing the need for architectural quality and more agile ways of working with shorter development cycles. The Metrics theme studies and provides insight to understand, monitor and improve software processes, products and organizations. The fourth theme, Customer Data and Ecosystem Driven Development, helps companies make sense of the vast amounts of data that are continuously collected from products in the field. Eventually, the theme of AI Engineering addresses the challenge that many companies struggle with in terms of deploying machine- and deep-learning models in industrial contexts with production quality. Each theme has its own part in the book and each part has an introduction chapter and then a carefully selected reprint of the most important papers from that theme.

This book mainly aims at researchers and advanced professionals in the areas of software engineering who would like to get an overview about the achievement made in various topics relevant for industrial large-scale software development and management - and to see how research benefits from a close cooperation between industry and academia.

​Jan Bosch is professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. His research is concerned with architecture, platforms, agile practices, digital transformation, data-driven practices and, more recently, AI engineering. He is the director of the Software Center as well as the head of the AI Engineering theme.
Jan Carlson is professor in Computer Science, specializing in software engineering, at Mälardalen University, Sweden. His current research focuses on model-based software and systems development, addressing areas such as artifact consistency, model-level timing analysis, and the combination of model-based development and continuous integration practices. In Software Center, he heads the Continuous Architecture theme.

Helena Holmström Olsson is professor of Computer Science, with her expertise in software engineering, at Malmö University, Sweden. Her research focuses on the digital transformation of the embedded systems domain, addressing topics such as continuous practices, new business models and recurring revenue streams, data and AI driven engineering and business ecosystem management. In Software Center, she heads the Customer Data and Ecosystem Driven Development theme.

Kristian Sandahl is professor of Software Engineering at Linköping University, Sweden and has a long career of successful cooperation between research and industry. His interests are centered around processes and tools for creating large-scale software systems, mainly in the fields of requirements engineering, maintenance, testing, and teaching software engineering in project courses.

Miroslaw Staron is professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has published extensively on software metrics, model-driven software development and empirical software engineering and cooperates with Ericsson, Volvo and other telecom companies and car manufacturers. Miroslaw Staron heads the Metrics theme in Software Center.