What is wrong with the software development?: research trends and a new software engineering paradigm

  • Authors:
  • Francielle S. Santos;Hermano P. Moura

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil;Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Since the 60's the demand for more complex software's in a shorter time-to-market has been increasing. This fact led major advances in the field of Software Engineering, however, still nowadays the development organizations are facing problems with productivity, software quality, processes adoption and communication. Several researches try to find these issues reasons and address some solutions, but in many cases the works identify isolated issues, giving isolated alternatives. So, what are the real problems with software development? Is there a main question to be solved? Looking for these and other answers, this paper analyses some research trends like PSEEs, Knowledge Management, Communication, and Interactivity resources and, based on them, proposes a new Software Engineering paradigm focused basically on people, information and an environment with Augmented Reality support. Nevertheless each drop of paradigm reveals challenges as the sustainability of the approach itself. To deal with this, the present work also proposes the use of Intervention Theory, to reduce the impact of the changes to a development team.