Motivation

Privacy is a central requirement in modern software systems. Increasing regulatory demands, such as the GDPR, and growing societal awareness make it essential to integrate privacy principles into software development processes. Despite this importance, research shows that privacy compliance is often insufficiently addressed in practice. A systematic review of existing approaches and methods is needed to better understand the current state of the field and to identify promising directions for future work.

Description

The aim of this thesis is to conduct a systematic literature review on privacy-compliant software development. The work should identify existing approaches, frameworks, and methods that support the integration of privacy requirements into the software development process. The thesis should analyze the state of research, highlight challenges, and point out gaps for future work.

Tasks

• Define the scope and research questions of the literature review
• Develop a structured search strategy and selection criteria
• Collect and analyze relevant academic publications
• Synthesize findings and categorize existing approaches
• Identify open challenges and research gaps

Requirements

• Interest in privacy and software engineering topics
• Ability to work independently and systematically
• Basic knowledge of research databases (e.g., IEEE Xplore, ACM DL, Scopus) is an advantage, but not mandatory

What we offer

• Supervision and methodological guidance
• Feedback on structure and writing process
• Opportunity to contribute to ongoing research projects

If you are interested in writing your thesis, please send me an email (saha@ise.tu-…) including your transcript of records and CV.