Software Engineering After the COVID-19 Outbreak

Software Engineering (SE) has evolved over many decades and has led to many proven and well-established methods and tools that support the efficient development of software and IT systems in general. Although software development had often been performed by distributed teams even before the pandemic, the COVID-19 outbreak exacerbated the physical separation of teams, creating numerous challenges and issues for both organizations and developers. Therefore, in this new column "Software Engineering After the COVID-19 Outbreak", we aim at providing insights into the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the work of Software Engineering practitioners and researchers. We intend to collect past and current challenges, changes in structures and organizations, reports of experiences and, of course, proven solutions for solving problems that have arisen.