Data Fabric and Datafication

Abstract

This paper is a response to the invitation by Forti et al. [1] to contribute to the discussion of trending topics in software engineering. The main focus of this contribution is the growing importance of data in software engineering, that is the data fabric and the datafication. Based on some (personal) observations, it is tried to refine the research questions raised by Forti et al. in more detail, in particular with respect to sharing and processing data in an environment of highly interacting distributed software components.