CASE 2.0: on key success factors for cloud-aided software engineering

Cloud Computing is here to stay. It offers a huge potential in many domains. In this talk we outline a cloud-driven approach to software engineering which we refer to as Cloud Aided Software Engineering (CASE 2.0). We are convinced that cloud computing is the natural candidate to boost tomorrow's software projects. Unfortunately, it is by far not enough to migrate current software engineering tool suites into the cloud and to work with them as usual to unlock the potential of the cloud. This talk aims at identifying the key success factors for cloud-based software engineering: deeply standardizing models, a highly integrated tool landscape, a focus shift onto group dynamics and cultural change management. Then, we explain some key innovations to turn CASE 2.0 into reality: orthogonal software modeling (OSM) and the single underlying model (SUM), the viable software process and the viable software product. Furthermore, we need to discuss a simple yet extremely important observation: the cloud offers a nearly perfect aid against copyright infringement. We will argue that this simple fact is amenable to completely change the face of software utilization.