Software quality research: From processes to model-based techniques

In this article we state that cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things pose challenges to software quality research. In the emerging real-time digital economy companies need to gain deep customer insight. The state of the art in modelbased systems and model-based testing allows software engineers for product-based and quantitative control of quality and for increased productivity. These gains can be invested to better understand the domain and business conditions. We argue that cyber-physical systems will pose an excellent basis for conducting collaborative research in model-based systems and model-based testing in the near future and report on lessons learnt in three areas of software (quality) research: (1) process-oriented quality, (2) model-based systems and (3) model-based testing.