A scientific paper entitled “Current and Future Challenges of Software Engineering for Services and Applications” has been co-authored by UBITECH and published at the Cloud Forward 2016 Conference that is going to be held in Madrid at 18-20 October, 2016. Given that ICT and, in particular, software is more and more pervasive and it cannot be considered anymore as a minor element of a complex system, there is a need to consolidate the software engineering discipline, which, despite the impressive achievements in the area of software technology, is probably one of the youngest scientific and technological disciplines with about 60 years of history. This paper summarizes the challenges that the Software Engineering for Services and Applications (SE4SA) cluster is considering as relevant. At this paper, UBITECH has actively contributed towards the collection and compilation of challenges dealt by the current European projects in Software Engineering (especially the “software design” and “software implementation and orchestration middleware” challenges), as well as the specification of future trends in the “privacy and security by design” software development era.
