Software development is program transformation

Authors:
Ralph E. Johnson
Affiliations:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Since most programmers are working on software that they did not start, their view of programming is that it is the process of converting one version of software to the next. In other words, software development is program transformation. This paper describes some of the implications of this point of view.