Theses

We are continuously looking for undergraduate students interested in conceptual and empirical topics in the area of development processes in general and requirements engineering in particular. Apart from open topics for a thesis, you are welcome to propose a topic yourself. I encourage students to also ask for working on long-term research projects, for example as part of ongoing academia-industry collaborations as they always provide great opportunities to also find an interesting thesis topic in the long run.

General Advises: A good collection of general good practices on how to organise and write a thesis can be found in the Thesis Guide by Elmar Jürgens. Please take the time going through the posts in there, it is worth it.

Please visit our Master Thesis course page in Canvas (PA 2534) for the general enrolment process and an overview of open topics, supervisors, and examination procedures.

Ongoing Student Projects

Requirement Handling Challenges in the Scaled Agile Software Development within the Automotive Industry
Development and Evaluation of an App for Blending Gas Mixtures in Technical Scuba Diving
Evaluating Contemporary Approaches for Automated Compliance Checks of Software-intensive Systems

Alumni

Sesha Sai Kaushik Upadhyayula, MSc (2022)

Pranay Raj Nallanagula, MSc (2022)

Anton Luckhardt, MSc (2022)

Umair bin Ali Malik, MSc (2021)

Yiyang He, MSc (2021)

Jiasong Zhong, MSc (2021)

Charlene Raddatz, BSc (2021)

Bhargav Krishna Mandava, MSc (2021)

Venkata Sai Abhishek Poolla, MSc (2021)

Achanta Chandra Srilekha, MSc (2021)

Pranavi Bitra, MSc (2021)

Phuoc Lee, MSc (2021)

Lena Ükisten, MSc (2019)

Samiddha Mukherjee, MSc (2019)

Anton Luckhardt, BSc (2019)

Christoph Bayr, BSc (2019)

Peter Klein, BSc (2019)

Felix Jedrzejewski, BSc (2019)

Egor Durkov, BSc (2018)

Ralph Reithmeier, MSc (2018)

Daniel Gadner, MSc (2018)

Corinna Coupette, BSc (2018)

Pallabi Bhowmick, MSc (2018)

Priscilla Mafra, MSc (2017)

Michaela Tiessler, MSc (2017)

Sanjiv Upadhyaya, MSc (2016)

Philipp Mager, MSc (2016)

Ahmet Tuzcu, MSc (2015)

Rupert Duerre, MSc (2015)

Yves Matkovic, BSc (2015)

Gregory Zuravlev, BSc (2015)

Claudia Konopka, MSc (2015)

Haydar Sokul, Diploma (2015)

Robert Bossek, MSc (2014)

Michaela Tiessler, BSc (2014)

Christoph Dietert, BSc (2014)

Clara Lange, MSc (2014)

Stefan Wiesi, MSc (2014)

Jan Kucera, MSc (2014)

Veronika Besner, BSc (2014)

Vincenz Döelle, MSc (2014)

Matthias Groeber, MSc (2014)

Andreas Thalhammer, MSc (2013)

Ahmet Tuzcu, BSc (2012)

Christine Nöhmeier, BSc (2012)

Jens Hanisch, MSc (2012)

Roman Gubarev, MSc (2012)

Markus Seebauer, Diploma (2011)

Dominik Grusemann, MSc (2011)

Christine Katz, MSc (2010)

Oscar Knapp, Diploma (2009)

Markus Luckey, MSc (2009)

Completed Student Projects

Sesha Sai Kaushik Upadhyayula
Towards the Future Architecture in Smart Manufacturinng (MSc Thesis in collaboration with Volvo CE)
Pranay Raj Nallanagula
Understanding the Impact of Work from Home on Developers’ Working Habits, Perceived Productivity, and Well-Being
Anton Luckhardt
Development and Evaluation of an evidence-based Quick Check for Requirements Engineering
Jiasong Zhong and Yiyang He
An Integration of Kano model and AHP in software requirements engineering
Umair bin Ali Malik
Interface Control and Coordination in a large-scale directed System-of-Systems (MSc Thesis, with Ericsson)
Charlene Raddatz
Requirements Engineering Problems in Practice (BSc Thesis, at the Free University of Berlin)
Phuoc Lee
MSc Thesis: Factors leading to Organizational Turnover in Software Engineering Roles (MSc Thesis, with Kerngedanke)
Pranavi Bitra and Achanta Chandra Srilekha
MSc Thesis: Development and Evaluation of an Artefact Model to support Security Compliance in DevSecOps (M.Sc. Thesis, with Siemens AG)
Venkata Sai Abhishek Poolla and Bhargav Krishna Mandava
MSc Thesis: Understanding Challenges and Needs of Requirements Engineering for AI-intensive Software Systems (M.Sc. Thesis, with fortiss GmbH)
Lena Ükisten
MSc Thesis: Supplier Risk Assessment based in Data Analytics (with BMW)
Samiddha Mukherjee
MSc Thesis: On Software Process Improvements of Industrial Software Development Processes with respect to Model-based Software Engineering (with Rohde & Schwarz)
Anton Luckhardt
BSc Thesis: Human Errors in Requirements Engineering (in collaboration with Jeffrey Carver and Fabian Fagerholm)
Christoph Bayr
BSc Thesis: A Methodology for Assessing Secure Software Development Projects in context of IEC 62443-4.1 (in collaboration with Siemens Corporate Technology)
Peter Klein
A Framework for Structuring Privacy by Design Patterns for Software-intensive Products (with Centre Digitisation.Bavaria)
Felix Jedrzejewski
BSc Thesis: Development of a Methodology for a structured Evaluation of Web Application Frameworks for Secure Software Development (with Siemens Corporate Technology)
Egor Durkov
BSc Thesis: Behaviour-driven Development for Non-functional Requirements (with Siemens Corporate Technology)
Ralph Reithmeier (Elite Graduate Programme Software Engineering)
MSc Thesis: Implementation of an Interactive Data Visualisation to Analyse Industrial Requirements Engineering Practices and Problems
Daniel Gadner (at the University of Innsbruck, Austria)
MSc Thesis: On Integrating Design Thinking in the SCRUM Framework
Corinna Coupette (at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
BSc Thesis: Researching the Right Thing – Assessing the Practical Relevance of Requirements Engineering Research
Pallabi Bhowmick
MSc Thesis: Exploitation of Synergies between Requirements Engineering and Design Thinking
Priscilla Mafra (co-supervision for the Fluminense Federal University Brazil)
MSc Thesis: Guidelines on Preventing Requirements Engineering Problems
Michaela Tiessler
MSc Thesis: Development of an Evidence-based Requirements Engineering Risk Assessment Approach
Sanjiv Upadhyaya
MSc Thesis: Identification of Variables to Characterise Empirical Studies in Software Engineering
Philipp Mager
MSc Thesis: Towards a Profound Understanding of Non-Functional Requirements
Michaela Tiessler
Guided Research Project: Replication of a Survey on the Transfer of Model-driven Development Techniques
Ahmet Tuzcu
MSc Thesis: Identification and Analysis of Requirements Engineering Success Factors
Rupert Duerre
MSc Thesis: Large Data Analysis in Agile Software Development
Thomas Seidl
MSc Thesis: Konzeption und Umsetzung einer Softwarearchitektur für effektivere verteilte Scrum-Entwicklung
Yves Matkovic
BSc Thesis: Untersuchung der Rolle des Requirements Engineering beim Produktmanagement für innovative Themen
Gregory Zuravlev
BSc Thesis: Systematic Literature Review on Automatic Quality Analysis of Requirements Artefacts
Claudia Konopka
MSc Thesis: An Evaluation Framework for Artifact-based Software Process Improvement Procedures
Robert Bossek
MSc Thesis: Design and protootypical implementation of a tool for attefact-based Requirements Engineering Improvement
Michaela Tiessler
BSc Thesis: Using Social Network Analysis Techniques to support Systematic Literature Reviews
Christoph Dietert
BSc Thesis: Supporting Traceability in Context of Agile Methods
Clara Lange
MSc Thesis: Integration of Testing in Artefact-based Requirements Engineering
Haydar Sokul
Diploma Thesis: Elicitation and Evaluation of Metrics for Quality Assurance in Requirements Engineering
Saahil Ognawala
Guided Research Project: Systematic Mapping Study on Requirements Engineering Process Improvement
Stefan Wiesi
MSc Thesis: Development and Evaluation of an artefact-based Requirements Engineering Approach for Agile Development
Jan Kucera
MSc Thesis: Development and Evaluation of an Activity-based Requirements Engineering Quality Model for Readability
Veronika Besner
BSc Thesis: Evaluation of an Artefact-based Requirements Engineering Approach
Vincenz Döelle
MSc Thesis: Development of an approach for testing in agile software projects.
Matthias Groeber
MSc Thesis: Investigation of the Usage of Artefacts in Agile Methods
Ragna Heidmann
Guided Research Project: Metamodel-based Determination of Key Performance Indicators for Software Process Management and Improvement
Andreas Thalhammer
MSc Thesis: Generation and Management of Requirements Engineering Artefacts by using Product Management Software (with msg global solutions)
Ahmet Tuzcu
BSc Thesis: Applying Project Management Methods to the Process Life Cycle
Christine Nöhmeier
BSc Thesis: Analyse der Projekt- und Produktqualität Studentischer Projekte (with InterFace AG)
Jens Hanisch
MSc Thesis: CMMI-based Concept for assessing ITIL-compliant Processes (with Knorr-Bremse IT-Services GmbH)
Olena Stute
Research Study: Study on the topic “Method Engineering – Prinzipien und Konzepte”
Roman Gubarev
MSc Thesis: Versionierung von Web Services (with Maiborn Wolff et al.)
Markus Seebauer
Diploma Thesis: Ermittlung von Projekteinflussgrößen zur Charakterisierung von SW-Entwicklungsprojekten in den frühen Phasen (with Capgemini sd&m)
Dominik Grusemann
MSc Thesis: The Application of Automatic Traceability for Regulatory Compliance of Large-Scale Systems (with Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton))
Christine Katz
MSc Thesis: Development of an Artifact Model for measuring the Degree of Completion in IT-Projects (with Capgemini sd&m)
Oscar Knapp
Diploma Thesis: Analyse und Interpretation von ausgewählten Projekt-Kennzahlen aus sd&m-Entwicklungsprojekten (with Capgemini sd&m)
Markus Luckey
MSc Thesis: Reuse of Quality Requirements using the Example of Security (with Capgemini sd&m)

Daniel Mendez

Ongoing Student Projects

Alumni