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How competitive is your software (improvement)?

It is all about software today. Today, an organization’s functionality and innovation is increasingly driven by software. Nowadays, electronics and software are responsible for over 90% of all innovations in the automotive industry, and many industrial companies are becoming software…

CeBIT 2017: Systems Engineering in the IoT Era

In summer 2016, Fraunhofer IESE conducted a study about challenges and best practices in the area of Systems Engineering across innovative companies in the German-speaking region. The results of the study were presented in Japan at the end of October…

Architecture-Centric Integration Testing

Architecture design is responsible for dividing an overall system into manageable pieces, which can be independently worked on. The subsequent build and integration process is responsible for putting the pieces together to form intermediate stages and finally the overall system. Additionally, more and more integration of software systems of all types happen. Nevertheless, little attention is still paid to integration testing. We elaborate why architecting and integration testing should be highly connected activities and which best practices allow integration testing to be effective in practice.