Ebook: Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering: 3rd and 4th International Conferences, ENASE 2008/2009, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, May 4-7, 2008 / Milan, Italy, May 9-10, 2009. Revised Selected Papers
- Tags: Software Engineering, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Computer Communication Networks, Programming Languages Compilers Interpreters, Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Management of Computing and Information Systems
- Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science 69
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Software engineering is understood as a broad term linking science, traditional en- neering, art and management and is additionally conditioned by social and external factors (conditioned to the point that brilliant engineering solutions based on strong science, showing artistic creativity and skillfully managed can still fail for reasons beyond the control of the development team). Modern software engineering needs a paradigm shift commensurate with a change of the computing paradigm from: 1. Algorithms to interactions (and from procedural to object-oriented programming) 2. Systems development to systems integration 3.Products to services Traditional software engineering struggles to address this paradigm shift to inter- tions, integration, and services. It offers only incomplete and disconnected methods for building information systems with fragmentary ability to dynamically accom- date change and to grow gracefully. The principal objective of contemporary software engineering should therefore be to try to redefine the entire discipline and offer a complete set of methods, tools and techniques to address challenges ahead that will shape the information systems of the future.
This book is a peer-reviewed collection of papers, modified and extended for the purpose of this publication, but originally presented at the International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 2008 and 2009 (ENASE 2008 / 2009). The book’s content is placed within the entire framework of software engineering activities, but with particular emphasis on experience reports and evaluations (qualitative and quantitative) of existing approaches as well as new ideas and proposals for improvements.