بعض الاتجاهات البحثية

1.     Traditional of software engineering

2.     Object-oriented software engineering

3.     Component-based software engineering

4.     Service-oriented software engineering

5.     Agent-based software engineering

6.     Open source software engineering

7.     Distributed software engineering (Engineering of distributed/parallel software systems)

8.     Run-time software engineering

9.     Aspect-oriented software engineering

10. Reverse Engineering

11. AI and Knowledge based software Engineering

12. Web Engineering

13. Integration between component and service-oriented technologies

14. Integration between service-oriented and agent technologies

15. Integration between component and agent technologies

16. Parallel programming languages and compilers

17. Management of parallel processing systems

18. Grid computing (grid distributed systems)

19. Network management systems

20. Distributed systems Security and security engineering

21. Remotely Administration of distributed databases.

22. integration of heterogeneous distributed databases.

Items 1-12 concern with building software tools for each type of software engineering. The tools include: analysis tools, architecture and design tools, code generation tools, testing tools, maintenance tools, management tools, integration tools and middleware systems.