Software Engineering has become one of the major foci of Computer Science research in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Both the University of Kaiserslautern's Computer Science Department and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) conduct research that subscribes to the development of complex software applications based on engineering principles. This requires system and process models for managing complexity, methods and techniques for ensuring product and process quality, and scalable formal methods for modeling and simulating system behavior. To understand the potential and limitations of these technologies, experimentsneed to be conducted for quantitative and qualitative evaluation and improvement. This line of software engineering research, which is based on the experimental scientific paradigm, is referred to as 'Experimental Software Engineering'.
