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While protecting user data is essential, software developers often fail to fulfill privacy requirements. However, the reasons why they struggle with privacy-compliant implementation remain unclear. Is it due to a lack of knowledge, or is it…

Since the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), software developers increasingly have to make privacy-related decisions during system design and…

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Awareness of cybersecurity topics facilitates software developers to produce secure code. This awareness is especially important in industrial environments for the products and services in critical infrastructures. In this work, we address…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Tiago Espinha Gasiba , Ulrike Lechner , Maria Pinto-Albuquerque

Many industrial IT security standards and policies mandate the usage of a secure coding methodology in the software development process. This implies two different aspects: first, secure coding must be based on a set of secure coding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Tiago Espinha Gasiba , Ulrike Lechner

This paper introduces our gamification of a part of our software design curriculum. Based on typical design principles a motivating learning game is developed to train students in software design. We use Bloom's taxonomy to determine…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Dave R. Stikkolorum , Michel R. V. Chaudron , Oswald de Bruin

Information protection is becoming a focal point for designing, creating and implementing software applications within highly integrated technology environments. The use of a safe coding technique in the software development process is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Isaac Chin Eian , Lim Ka Yong , Majesty Yeap Xiao Li , Noor Affan Bin Noor Hasmaddi , Fatima-tuz-Zahra

Software game is a kind of application that is used not only for entertainment, but also for serious purposes that can be applicable to different domains such as education, business, and health care. Although the game development process…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Saiqa Aleem , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

Applications like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have become an indispensable part of the corporate digital infrastructure. These systems store sensitive data about customers, suppliers, and employees, and thus companies have to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Alicia Pang , Katsiaryna Labunets , Olga Gadyatskaya

With the increase in the number of privacy regulations, small development teams are forced to make privacy decisions on their own. In this paper, we conduct a mixed-method survey study, including statistical and qualitative analysis, to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Maxwell Prybylo , Sara Haghighi , Sai Teja Peddinti , Sepideh Ghanavati

Data privacy legislation, such as GDPR and CCPA/CPRA, has rendered data privacy law compliance a requirement of all software systems. Developers need to implement various kinds of functionalities to cover law needs, including user rights…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ioanna Theophilou , Georgia M. Kapitsaki

Many programming frameworks have been introduced to support the development of differentially private software applications. In this chapter, we survey some of the conceptual ideas underlying these frameworks in a way that we hope will be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Marco Gaboardi , Michael Hay , Salil Vadhan

Virtual Reality (VR) technologies offer immersive experiences but collect substantial user data. While deceptive design is well-studied in 2D platforms, little is known about its manifestation in VR environments and its impact on user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Hilda Hadan , Michaela Valiquette , Lennart E. Nacke , Leah Zhang-Kennedy

Over the last several decades, computer games started to have a significant impact on society. However, although a computer game is a type of software, the process to conceptualize, produce and deliver a game could involve unusual features.…

Internet of Things (IoT) applications have the potential to derive sensitive information about individuals. Therefore, developers must exercise due diligence to make sure that data are managed according to the privacy regulations and data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Atheer Aljeraisy , Masoud Barati , Omer Rana , Charith Perera

Privacy engineering is gaining momentum in industry and academia alike. So far, manifold low-level primitives and higher-level methods and strategies have successfully been established. Still, fostering adoption in real-world information…

Deploying machine learning models in production may allow adversaries to infer sensitive information about training data. There is a vast literature analyzing different types of inference risks, ranging from membership inference to…

With generative AI becoming widespread, the existence of AI-based programming assistants for developers is no surprise. Developers increasingly use them for their work, including generating code to fulfil the data protection requirements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Kashumi Madampe , John Grundy , Nalin Arachchilage

Privacy engineering, as an emerging field of research and practice, comprises the technical capabilities and management processes needed to implement, deploy, and operate privacy features and controls in working systems. For that, software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Leonardo Horn Iwaya , Muhammad Ali Babar , Awais Rashid

Privacy and data protection constitute core values of individuals and of democratic societies. There have been decades of debate on how those values -and legal obligations- can be embedded into systems, preferably from the very beginning of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-13 George Danezis , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Marit Hansen , Jaap-Henk Hoepman , Daniel Le Metayer , Rodica Tirtea , Stefan Schiffner

The application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has significantly affected privacy requirements elicitation, modelling, and verification in Software Engineering (SE). One of the affected areas is requirements visualisation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Evangelia Vanezi , Georgia M. Kapitsaki , Anna Philippou