Historical Aspects

• NATO conference, 1968: coined term “software engineering”

  • software production should use established engineering principles to solve the software crisis

• DeRemer & Kron, 1976: PITL – “Programming In The Large”

• Parnas, 1987: “multi-person construction of multi-version software”

• Software engineering discipline is very young

  • techniques to specify properties of product independent of design are needed
  • formal analysis tools are critical
  • certain principles are essential
  • many techniques and notations

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