Ernst Denert Software Engineering Award 2022

AbstractThe Ernst Denert Award is already existing since 1992, which does not only honor the award winners but also the software engineering field in total. Software engineering is a vivid and intensively extending field that regularly spawns new subfields such as automotive software engineering, research software engineering, or quantum software engineering, covering specific needs but also generalizing solutions, methods, and techniques when they become applicable. This is the introductory chapter of the book on the Ernst Denert Software Engineering Award 2022. It provides an overview of the five nominated PhD theses.