• DocumentCode
    3382570
  • Title

    The modest software engineer

  • Author

    Thomas, Martyn

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Lab., Oxford Univ., UK
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    9-11 April 2003
  • Firstpage
    169
  • Lastpage
    174
  • Abstract
    Autonomous decentralised systems must be dependable or they will be unhelpful, at best, and may cause serious harm. Despite major advances in theoretical computer science and software engineering, industrial practice has not kept pace and most software intensive system development projects fail. If we are to achieve the benefits promised by new system architectures, industry will have to adopt much more rigorous software engineering practices, and universities will have to extend the amount of software engineering they teach, and to use such methods routinely on their own projects.
  • Keywords
    distributed processing; software engineering; autonomous decentralised systems; computer science; rigorous software engineering practices; software engineering; software intensive system development projects; system architectures; Business; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Computer science; Computer science education; Costs; Laboratories; Programming profession; Software engineering; Software systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2003. ISADS 2003. The Sixth International Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-1876-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISADS.2003.1193945
  • Filename
    1193945