Dr. Per Runeson is a professor of software engineering at Lund University, Sweden, and leader of its Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) and co-director of the competence center NextG2Com. His research interests include empirical research and collaboration with industry on software development and management methods. He is particularly interested in studies on testing, and the role of open source and open data in software engineering and in research. He is the principal author of ”Case study research in software engineering”, has coauthored ”Experimentation in software engineering”.