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Advances in Software Engineering

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C. V. Ramamoorthy,

Wei-Tek TsaiAuthors Info & Claims

Computer, Volume 29, Issue 10

Pages 47 - 58

https://doi.org/10.1109/2.539720

Published: 01 October 1996 Publication History

Abstract

Software is the key technology in applications as diverse as accounting, hospital management, aviation, and nuclear power. Application advances in different domains--each with different requirements--have propelled software development from small batch programs to large, real-time programs with multimedia capabilities. To cope, software's enabling technologies have undergone tremendous improvement in hardware, communications, operating systems, compilers, databases, programming languages, and user interfaces, among others. Despite these advances, the main issues of software engineering remain relatively stable. Addressing these concerns will not be a simple matter. As an engineering discipline, software engineering techniques must be consistently easy to use and consistently effective in practice to be useful. Software engineering as a whole will eventually mature when any software development group that follows a prescribed process and associated techniques can consistently--and quickly--produce reliable, reusable, and robust software.

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Advances in Software Engineering
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management

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Computer Volume 29, Issue 10

October 1996

129 pages

ISSN:0018-9162

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Edward A. Parrish
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

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