The future of software processes

  • Authors:
  • Barry Boehm

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

  • Venue:
  • SPW'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Unifying the Software Process Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In response to increasing demands being put onto software-intensive systems, software processes will evolve significantly over the next two decades. This paper identifies seven relatively surprise-free trends – increased emphasis on users and end value; increasing software criticality and need for dependability; increasingly rapid change; increasingly complex systems of systems; increasing needs for COTS, reuse, and legacy software integration; and computational plenty – and two “wild card” trends: increasing software autonomy and combinations of biology and computing; and discusses their likely influences on software processes between now and 2025. It also discusses limitations to software process improvement, and areas of significant software process research and education needs.