"No silver bullet" reloaded: retrospective on "essence and accidents of software engineering"

  • Authors:

  • Steven D. Fraser;Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.;Martin Fowler;Ricardo Lopez;Aki Namioka;Linda Northrop;David Lorge Parnas;David Thomas

  • Affiliations:

  • Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA;UNC: Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC;ThoughtWorks, Boston, MA;QUALCOMM, San Diego, CA;Cisco Systems, Seattle, WA;SEI (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA;University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland;Bedarra Labs, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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

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Abstract

Twenty years after the paper No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks first appeared in IEEE Computer in April 1987 (following its 1986 publication in Information Processing, ISBN 0444-7077-3) does the premise hold that the complexity of software is not accidental? How have the "hopes for silver" which included high-level language advances, object-oriented programming, artificial intelligence, expert systems, great designers, etc. - evolved? Panelists will discuss what has changed and/or stayed the same in the past twenty years - and the paper's influence on the community.