Software engineering is a value-based contact sport

  • Authors:
  • B. Boehm

  • Affiliations:
  • Comput. Sci. Dept., Bowdoin Coll., Brunswick, ME

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The theory that most current students get covers may be 15 percent of the activities they encounter in practice. Most of it is based on a model of software engineering as a set-piece job of deriving and verifying code from a static set of requirements. This was a good model in the 1970s, but it is way out of date now. We should try to educate them for the software engineering situations they will encounter in the future.