No Silver Bullet: Software Engineering Reloaded

Fraser, Steven; Mancl, Dennis

doi:10.1109/ms.2008.14

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“…Despite all the financial and human resources that have been spent on information systems and software development projects, defects and bugs in software products are widely reported in the research and practice literature [Fraser and Mancl. 2008, Brooks.…”

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Omission of Quality Software Development Practices

2018

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Software deficiencies are minimized by utilizing recommended software development and quality assurance practices. However, these recommended practices (i.e., quality practices) become ineffective if software professionals purposefully ignore them. Conducting a systematic literature review (n = 4,838), we discovered that only a small number of previous studies, within software engineering and information systems literature, have investigated the omission of quality practices. These studies explain the omission of quality practices mainly as a result of organizational decisions and trade-offs made under resource constraints or market pressure. However, our study indicates that different aspects of this phenomenon deserve further research. In particular, future research must investigate the conditions triggering the omission of quality practices and the processes through which this phenomenon occurs. Especially, since software development is a human-centric phenomenon, the psychological and behavioral aspects of this process deserve in-depth empirical investigation. In addition, futures research must clarify the social, organizational, and economical consequences of ignoring quality practices. Gaining in-depth theoretically sound and empirically grounded understandings about different aspects of this phenomenon enables research and practice to suggest interventions to overcome this issue.

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“…Other studies come to similar results and conclude that agile projects have more or less the same fail rate today as in 2001 [47]. So despite proponents' view of ASD approaches, they are clearly not a "silver bullet" in and of themselves, overcoming long-known problems in software development [15,16]. Because of the high popularity and still increasing use of ASD methodologies in practice and the notable number of unsuccessful projects, there is a need of identifying issues and proposing solutions to contribute to the enhancement of the success rate of ASD projects.…”

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Do As You Want Or Do As You Are Told? Control vs. Autonomy in Agile Software Development Teams

Dreesen

Schmid²

2018

Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Agile Software Development (ASD) projects still draw the attention of the research community. Agile methodologies promise to increase an ASD team's agility in such a way, that these teams are able to respond and react to changing user requirements. Existing studies on flexibility and autonomy in ASD projects, however, imply that these projects potentially can benefit from different elements of control. Our objective is to improve the understanding of how to enact control through agile practices, and how these practices affect either formal or informal control in ASD teams. Based on an extensive literature review, our study (1) provides an overview of adequate control-enacting agile practices and (2) compares the results with our empirical findings, derived from qualitative data.

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“…Posteriormente, a mediados de los '90, Wayt Gibbs (1994) volvió sobre este tema reconociendo que la Crisis de Software no solo mantenía vigencia sino que se había hecho crónica. Mucho más recientemente Steven Fraser (2008) coordinó un panel de especialistas, que reunidos con motivo del 20 aniversario del célebre artículo de Brooks, discutieron el estado de situación y las perspectivas futuras. En esa ocasión no faltaron dudas con referencia a muchos de los progresos proclamados, sosteniéndose que los problemas principales no habían sido resueltos, más bien que habían quedado disimulados gracias a los progresos y favorable evolución del hardware.…”

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Las causas de las deficiencias de la Ingeniería de Software

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Zarazaga

2016

Ciencia Y Tecnología

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Since Software Engineering was born, a question has been established that still nowadays happens to have no final answer: "is it possible the application of common traditional engineering practices to development of software products?". With this premise, Software Engineering had to resolve the "Software Crisis" that is still valid, nevertheless. The question can be reformulated as: "is it possible to avoid deficiencies in projects applying such practices?". The authors identify and develop the three factors that appear to prevent it: i) common traditional engineering practices are not applied, because investigation does not provide necessary proposals or because software industry does not use them; ii) Software Engineering does not cover the whole industry checking that technical systems remain largely oblivious to this new engineering; and last, iii) an unresolved semantic gap between the functional model in the analysis phase, and the object model required for the design phase affecting the quality of development processes. Since society is subject, as increasingly, to the quality of goods and computer services that are offered, no doubt the exposed problem represents and enormous ethical and social responsibility. That´s why this article suggests thinking on the contribution that is expected from Software engineering to overcome the well known Software Crisis.

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No Silver Bullet: Software Engineering Reloaded

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Omission of Quality Software Development Practices

Do As You Want Or Do As You Are Told? Control vs. Autonomy in Agile Software Development Teams

Las causas de las deficiencias de la Ingeniería de Software

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