No silver bullet: a retrospective on the essence and accidents of software engineering

  • Authors:

  • Dennis Mancl;Steven D. Fraser;William F. Opdyke

  • Affiliations:

  • Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ;Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA;Motorola, Schaumburg, IL

  • Venue:
  • Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications companion
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

No "Silver Bullet" is a classic software engineering paper that deserves revisiting. What if we had a chance to rewrite Brooks' article today? What have we learned about effective software development techniques over the last 20 years? Do we have some experiences that reinforce or contradict Brooks' thesis?