Theoretical Issues in Software Engineering.

Abstract

The discipline of software engineering has transferred the common-sense methods of good programming and management to large software projects. It has been less successful in acquiring a solid theoretical foundation for these methods. The software development process has been divided into phases, each separating from programming some aspect for independent consideration. The division itself has no justification save practice that has evolved for large, concurrently processed programs. Furthermore, each phase needs formal description and analysis. We briefly describes the disciplines, gives its existing theoretical basis, and lists some problems that need theoretical work. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA125013

Entities

People

  • Dick Hamlet

Organizations

  • Pratt & Whitney

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic Programming
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Engineering
  • Inventory Control
  • Language
  • Programming Languages
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools
  • Software Testing
  • Test Methods

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Theoretical Analysis.