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ResponsibleSoftware Engineering Ina Schieferdecker Abstract Software trustworthiness today is more about acceptance than technical quality; software and its features must be comprehensible and explainable. Since softwarebecomesmoreandmoreapublicgood,softwarequalitybecomesacritical concern for human society. And insofar artificial intelligence (AI) has becomepart of our daily lives—naturally we use language assistants or automatic translation programs—software quality is evolving and has to take into account usability, transparency as well as safety and security. Indeed, a majority worldwide rejects currently the use of AI in schools, in court or in the army because it is afraid of data misuse or heteronomy. Insofar, software and its applications can succeed onlyifpeopletrust them.Theinitiativestowards“responsiblesoftwareengineering” address these concerns.This publication is about raising awareness for responsible softwareengineering. Keywords Software testing · Softwarequality · Softwareengineering 1 Introduction Regardless of whether it is an autonomous vehicle, an artificial intelligence or a mobile robot—software is always steering these systems and is a key component in digital transformation.The same applies to critical infrastructures that shape the livesofmillionsofpeople:utilities forelectricity,waterandgas,butalso largeparts of the transport infrastructurearealreadybasedon informationandcommunication technologies (ICT). Scenarios for smart homes, smart manufacturing and smart cities are even further extending the influence of software on our everyday lives [1]:“Thesoftware industrydirectlycontributedAC304billion to theEUeconomyin 2016,representing2%of totalEUvalue-addedGDP—up22.4%fromAC249billion in 2014.Thesectoremployed3.6millionpeopleandpaidAC162.1billion in wages. I. Schieferdecker Federal Ministry ofEducation and Research, Berlin,Germany ©The Author(s) 2020 S.Goericke (ed.), The Future of Software QualityAssurance, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29509-7_11 137