Barry BoehmA View of 20Th and 21st Century Software Engineering

International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2006), pp. 12-29

CS 791zGraduate Topics on Software Engineering

University of Nevada, RenoDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering

Outline

Introduction A Hegelian View of Software Engineering A View of 2010’s and Beyond Conclusions

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Concept

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Concept

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A Hegelian View of SE

Hegel believed that human understanding follows a path of Thesis – this is why things happen they way they do Antithesis – the thesis fails in some important ways,

here’s a better explanation Synthesis – the antithesis rejected too much of the

original thesis, here’s a better hybrid explanation that captures the good from both thesis and antithesis

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1950’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1950’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1960’s

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Characteristics: code-and-fix; software maintenance; non-engineering people; 1960’s “question authority” mentality; hacker culture; cowboy programmers.

A Hegelian View of SE: 1960’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1970’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1970’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1970’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1970’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1970’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1970’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1980’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1980’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1980’s

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Solutions:- Software Tools

- New testing and CM tools- IPSE’s- CASE

- Software Processes- “Software Processes are Software Too” - DoD STARS program on work avoidance- CMU-SEI, similar organizations in Europe and Japan - Brooks’ “No silver bullet” (1983)

- Accidental vs essential tasks (c, c, c, i) - Software Reuse

- Commercial infrastructure software reuse- OOP: Smalltalk, Eiffel, C++, Java

A Hegelian View of SE: 1990’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 1990’s

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Other directions in 1990s: - Emphasis on Time-to-Market- Controlling concurrency in

engineering (see Boehm’s own spiral process)

- Open source development- Usability and HCI

A Hegelian View of SE: 2000’s

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A Hegelian View of SE: 2000’s

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New directions:• Agile methods• Value-based SE• Software criticality and dependability• COTS, open source, and legacy software• Model-driven development• Interacting software and systems engineering

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A Hegelian View of SE: 2000’s

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A View of SE: 2010’s & beyond

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A View of SE: 2010’s & beyond

A View of SE: 2010’s and beyond

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A View of SE: 2010’s and beyond

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SE for systems of systems

A View of SE: 2020’s & beyond

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Computational plenty trends

A View of SE: 2020’s & beyond

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Wildcards: Autonomy & Bio-computing

A View of SE: 2020’s & beyond

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Wildcards: Autonomy & Bio-computing

Conclusions

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Timeless Principles and Aging Practices

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Timeless Principles and Aging Practices

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Timeless Principles and Aging Practices

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Timeless Principles and Aging Practices

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Timeless Principles and Aging Practices

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Timeless Principles and Aging Practices

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Timeless Principles and Aging Practices

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Challenges for SE education