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Editors' introduction: Comparative software engineering: Review and perspectives

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Engineering is a set of disciplines seeking solutions for complicated problems and systems that could not be done by individuals. The aim of engineering is to repetitively produce complicated artefacts in an efficient way. This paper describes a set of generic engineering principles and an engineering maturity model. With the engineering principles and model, the nature and status of software engineering are analysed. Interesting findings on what software engineering can learn from generic engineering principles are presented. This paper intends to show the nature, status and problems of software engineering, as well as its future trends, based on the comparative studies between the generic engineering principles and software engineering practices.

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  1. Centre for Software Engineering, IVF, Argongatan 30, S‐431 53, Molndal, Gothenburg, Sweden E‐mail

    Yingxu Wang

  2. School of Computing, Information Systems, and Mathematics, South Bank University, London, 103 Borough Road, London, SE1 0AA, UK E‐mail

    Dilip Patel

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Wang, Y., Patel, D. Editors' introduction: Comparative software engineering: Review and perspectives. Annals of Software Engineering 10, 1–10 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018931531464

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