Peter Sommerlad

Peter Sommerlad is professor for software engineering and head of Institute for Software at HSR Hochschule für Technik, Rapperswil. Peter is co-author of the books Pattern-oriented Software Architecture Vol.1 and Security Patterns as well as author and shepherd of many other patterns for software and security. His current research interests are in refactoring for non-Java languages in Eclipse (e.g. C++, Ruby, Python) with his long-term goal of making software simpler by decremental development: Refactoring software to 10% its size with better architecture, testability and quality and even improved functionality.