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"No silver bullet" reloaded: retrospective on "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

PANEL SESSION: Panels table of contents

Pages: 1026 - 1030

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-865-7

Authors

Steven D. Fraser	Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.	UNC: Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Martin Fowler	ThoughtWorks, Boston, MA
Ricardo Lopez	QUALCOMM, San Diego, CA
Aki Namioka	Cisco Systems, Seattle, WA
Linda Northrop	SEI (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA
David Lorge Parnas	University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
David Thomas	Bedarra Labs, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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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

Twenty years after the paper No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks first appeared in IEEE Computer in April 1987 (following its 1986 publication in Information Processing, ISBN 0444-7077-3) does the premise hold that the complexity of software is not accidental? How have the "hopes for silver" which included high-level language advances, object-oriented programming, artificial intelligence, expert systems, great designers, etc. - evolved? Panelists will discuss what has changed and/or stayed the same in the past twenty years - and the paper's influence on the community.

INDEX TERMS

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

Keywords:
complexity, design, silver bullet, software

REVIEW

"Larry Bernstein : Reviewer"

This is a report of a panel discussion reexamining the wisdom of Fred Brooks. It’s rare that the author of a seminal article sits on a panel that evaluates his work. Brooks is a good sport, and continues to be a serious contributor to the co more...

Collaborative Colleagues:

Steven D. Fraser: colleagues

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.: colleagues

Martin Fowler: colleagues

Ricardo Lopez: colleagues

Aki Namioka: colleagues

Linda Northrop: colleagues

David Lorge Parnas: colleagues

David Thomas: colleagues