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

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Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications archive
Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications companion table of contents

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

WORKSHOP SESSION: Workshops table of contents

Pages: 758 - 759

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-865-7

Authors

Dennis Mancl	Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ
Steven D. Fraser	Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
William F. Opdyke	Motorola, Schaumburg, IL

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SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

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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Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.9 Management