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Software engineering principles: a survey and an analysis

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Normand Séguin,

Robert DupuisAuthors Info & Claims

C3S2E '10: Proceedings of the Third C* Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering

Pages 59 - 65

https://doi.org/10.1145/1822327.1822335

Published: 19 May 2010 Publication History

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This study presents a survey and an analysis of the literature on software engineering principles. The literature survey, covering a period of thirty years, has come up with 14 different papers and books, which have proposed a total of 313 distinct principles for software engineering. Our analysis of these works is carried out based on a rigorous definition of the term 'principle' and on the identification a set of explicit criteria to assess whether or not any of the proposed principles qualify as fundamental principles of software engineering. The analytical approach makes it possible to arrive at a set of 24 candidate software engineering principles which all meet the required criteria.

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Software engineering principles: a survey and an analysis
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
2. Software and its engineering

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C3S2E '10: Proceedings of the Third C* Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering

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DOI:10.1145/1822327

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