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The term "software engineering" was deliberately chosen as the conference title to provoke thought regarding the need for disciplined approaches in software development. [4] During the conference, participants discussed issues such as software reliability, project management, and the challenges of large-scale software systems. [1]
Because software, unlike a major civil engineering construction project, is often easy and cheap to change after it has been constructed, a piece of custom software that fails to deliver on its objectives may sometimes be modified over time in such a way that it later succeeds—and/or business processes or end-user mindsets may change to accommodate the software.
One challenge faced by the traditional approach is that most software development projects' requirements change during the project execution period. Extreme projects are “a complex, self-correcting venture in search of a desired result” (Doug DeCarlo), [ 8 ] where requirements are constantly changing throughout the project as a response to ...
A software development process is concerned primarily with the production aspect of software development, as opposed to the technical aspect, such as software tools.These processes exist primarily for supporting the management of software development, and are generally skewed toward addressing business concerns.
Software analysis begins with a requirements analysis to capture the business needs of the software. [19] Challenges for the identification of needs are that current or potential users may have different and incompatible needs, may not understand their own needs, and change their needs during the process of software development. [20]
Agile software development has been widely seen as highly suited to certain types of environments, including small teams of experts working on greenfield projects, [46] [77] and the challenges and limitations encountered in the adoption of agile software development methods in a large organization with legacy infrastructure are well-documented ...
The need to control software fault is one of the most rising challenges facing software industries today. Fault tolerance must be a key consideration in the early stage of software development. There exist different mechanisms for software fault tolerance, among which: Recovery blocks; N-version software; Self-checking software
Software researchers and practitioners have been addressing the problems of effort estimation for software development projects since at least the 1960s; see, e.g., work by Farr [8] [9] and Nelson. [10] Most of the research has focused on the construction of formal software effort estimation models.