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No silver bullet: a retrospective on the essence and accidents of software engineering

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OOPSLA '07: Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications companion

Pages 758 - 759

https://doi.org/10.1145/1297846.1297873

Published: 20 October 2007 Publication History

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No "Silver Bullet" is a classic software engineering paper that deserves revisiting. What if we had a chance to rewrite Brooks' article today? What have we learned about effective software development techniques over the last 20 years? Do we have some experiences that reinforce or contradict Brooks' thesis?

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Brooks, F. P., No Silver Bullet -- Essence and Accident in Software Engineering. Proc. IFIP Tenth World Computing Conference, (1986), 1069--1076.

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No silver bullet: a retrospective on the essence and accidents of software engineering
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
    2. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
    2. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems
    2. Software libraries and repositories

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OOPSLA '07: Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications companion

October 2007

241 pages

ISBN:9781595938657

DOI:10.1145/1297846

General Chair:
Richard P. Gabriel
IBM Research, USA
,
Program Chairs:
David F. Bacon
IBM Research, USA
,
Cristina Videira Lopes
University of California, Irvine, USA
,
Guy L. Steele
Sun Labs, USA

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Published: 20 October 2007

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