Joseph, Mathai (1988) Software engineering : theory, experiment, practice or performance. University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science. (Department of Computer Science research report). (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Forty years ago, the very first programmers were wondering how to make the best use of stored program computers. By twenty years ago, that handful of programmers had grown into a software industry so large that it faced a major crisis. Today, another twenty years on, we are beginning to see how that crisis helped to move the industry from an organised craft into a profession. We still have a software crisis, though it is no longer the old one and no longer even considered a crisis. It seems likely that we will always have a crisis, a situation where our propensity for producing programs outstrips our understanding of new programming concepts. What the last twenty years have accomplished in a quiet way is the subject of this talk and I would like to show you how, and how far, theory, experiment and practice have worked together, often unintentionally, to achieve performance in software engineering.

Item Type:	Report
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Computer Science
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Software engineering
Series Name:	Department of Computer Science research report
Publisher:	University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science
Official Date:	February 1988
Dates:	Date Event February 1988 Completion
Number:	Number 117
Number of Pages:	10
DOI:	CS-RR-117
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Computer Science
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Unpublished
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