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Continuing Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software
November/December 2009 (vol. 26 no. 6)
pp. 64-67
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Mary Shaw, "Continuing Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 64-67, November/December, 2009.
 
 
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author = {Mary Shaw},
title = {Continuing Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {26},
number = {6},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2009},
pages = {64-67},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2009.172},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Mary Shaw, Carnegie Mellon University
Over forty years ago, the term "software engineering" was coined as a challenge to establish software design and development on a firm engineering footing. Twenty years ago, "Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software" assessed progress toward that goal. This article updates the assessment, showing that we have made progress but still have much left to do.

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Index Terms:
software engineering, commercial practice, critical applications, development techniques, economic force, engineering discipline, expertise, information processing, professional specializations, routine practice, science, scientific basis, software engineering, software technology
Citation:
Mary Shaw, "Continuing Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 64-67, Nov.-Dec. 2009, doi:10.1109/MS.2009.172
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