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Designing a discipline of software design

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Software Engineering Education (CSEE 1994)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 750))

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Software engineering is not a discipline. Its practitioners cannot systematically make and fulfill promises to deliver software systems judged by their customers as usable and dependable, on time and fairly priced. The illusion that software engineers possess a discipline has produced the major breakdown called the software crisis.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, 22030-4444, Farifax, Virginia

    Peter J. Denning

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Jorge L. Díaz-Herrera

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Denning, P.J. (1993). Designing a discipline of software design. In: Díaz-Herrera, J.L. (eds) Software Engineering Education. CSEE 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017603

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