Software engineering: an emerging discipline

  • Authors:
  • R. Goldberg

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Corporate Technical Institutes, Thornwood, New York

  • Venue:
  • IBM Systems Journal
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

Software engineering is an emerging discipline whose goal is to produce reliable software products in cost-effective manner. This discipline is evolving rapidly as the challenges faced by its practitioners keep extending their skills. This paper gives a quick tour of the main ideas and thrusts that have driven software engineering in its first 25 years and attempts to look ahead at the next set of advances.