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.