Beyond Programming-in-the-Large: The Next Challenges for Software Engineering.
Abstract
As society's dependence on computing broadens, software engineering is being called upon to address new problems that raise new technical and non-technical concerns. Aspirations and expectations for the applications of computers appear to be unbounded, but present software development and support techniques will not be adequate to build computational systems that satisfy our expectations, even at very high cost. Each order-of-magnitude increase in the scale of the problems being solved leads to a new set of critical problems that require essentially new solutions. The next challenges for software engineering will deal with software as one of many elements in complex systems, which we call program-as-component, and with the role of software as an active participant in the software development process, which we call program-as-deputy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA181294
Entities
People
- Mary Shaw
Organizations
- Carnegie Mellon University