The future of software engineering: enhancing human expertise in tackling software quality

  • Authors:
  • Margaret Burnett

  • Affiliations:
  • Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper argues that the essential point of software engineering is not to (semi-automatically) improve the quality of software, but rather to help human problem solvers to improve the quality of software. This paper argues that this essential point of software engineering research has been forgotten, and that without regaining that perspective, significant progress is not likely.