Continuing Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software

Author

Shaw, Mary

Author_Institution

Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Volume

26

Issue

6

fYear

2009

Firstpage

64

Lastpage

67

Abstract

In her 1990 IEEE Software article "Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software" (Nov./Dec, pp. 15-24), Mary Shaw identified the key areas that the software development profession must address to become a true engineering discipline. That classic article made the magazine\´s 25th anniversary top picks list (Jan./Feb. 2009, pp. 9-11). Here, Mary reflects on the evolution of her thinking since the publication of "Prospects". The paper dealt with the topics of: programming progress; beyond programming; management of the software production; and progress toward an engineering discipline.

Keywords

social aspects of automation; software engineering; IEEE software article; programming progress; prospects publication; software development profession; software engineering discipline; software production management; commercial practice; critical applications; development techniques; economic force; engineering discipline; expertise; information processing; professional specializations; routine practice; science; scientific basis; software engineering; software technology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2009.172

Filename

5287012