TY - JOUR
T1 - Software engineering technology watch
AU - Cowan, R. D.
AU - McKendall, Alan
AU - Mili, Ali
AU - Yang, L.
AU - Wang, L.
AU - Chen, D.
AU - Janardhana, V.
AU - Spencer, T.
N1 - Funding Information:
At the request of British Telecom (BT) Labs (through the Software Engineering Research Center), and with subsequent funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), we have initiated a project to analyze technology trends and try to gain some insight into how they evolve. While we are at the very early, and very tentative, stages of this project, we can characterize our approach to this problem by two premises. We feel that the combination of these two premises (structuring the problem and diversifying the solution) has given us sufficient latitude to gain some insight into the problem and make some (tentative, timid) progress towards addressing it. We do not offer any concrete answers in this paper, only bits of insight and some partial solutions, and perhaps the impression that the problem is not as intractable as it may sound.
PY - 2002/2
Y1 - 2002/2
N2 - Predicting the evolution of software engineering technology is, at best, a dubious proposition; most typically, it is a frustrating exercise in disappointment and anxiety. It is not difficult to see why: the evolution of software technology is fast paced, and is determined by a dizzying array of factors, many of them outside the arena of software engineering, and most of them cannot be identified, let alone predicted, with any significant advance notice. In this paper, we briefly discuss our first ventures in this domain, and some (very) preliminary conclusions and resolutions.
AB - Predicting the evolution of software engineering technology is, at best, a dubious proposition; most typically, it is a frustrating exercise in disappointment and anxiety. It is not difficult to see why: the evolution of software technology is fast paced, and is determined by a dizzying array of factors, many of them outside the arena of software engineering, and most of them cannot be identified, let alone predicted, with any significant advance notice. In this paper, we briefly discuss our first ventures in this domain, and some (very) preliminary conclusions and resolutions.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0020-0255(01)00171-2
DO - 10.1016/S0020-0255(01)00171-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036466730
SN - 0020-0255
VL - 140
SP - 195
EP - 215
JO - Information sciences
JF - Information sciences
IS - 3-4
ER -