TY - GEN
T1 - Approaches to software engineering
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Human-Centred Software Engineering, HCSE 2010
AU - Bannon, Liam J.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The field of software engineering has been evolving since its inception in 1968. Arguments as to the exact nature of the field, whether it should be conceived as a real engineering profession, the role of formal methods, whether it is as much an art as a science, etc., continue to divide both practitioners and academics. My purpose here is not to debate these particular topics, but rather to approach the field from the outside, coming as I do from a long period of involvement in the human and social side of the computing discipline, namely, from the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Participative Design, Interaction Design, and Social Informatics, more generally. I wish to examine how this "human- centred" perspective might shed a new light on some issues within the SE field, perhaps opening up topics for further discussion and examination.
AB - The field of software engineering has been evolving since its inception in 1968. Arguments as to the exact nature of the field, whether it should be conceived as a real engineering profession, the role of formal methods, whether it is as much an art as a science, etc., continue to divide both practitioners and academics. My purpose here is not to debate these particular topics, but rather to approach the field from the outside, coming as I do from a long period of involvement in the human and social side of the computing discipline, namely, from the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Participative Design, Interaction Design, and Social Informatics, more generally. I wish to examine how this "human- centred" perspective might shed a new light on some issues within the SE field, perhaps opening up topics for further discussion and examination.
KW - CSCW
KW - human-centred computing
KW - requirements
KW - sociology
KW - software engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78650243225&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-16488-0_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-16488-0_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650243225
SN - 3642164870
SN - 9783642164873
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 5
BT - Human-Centred Software Engineering - Third International Conference, HCSE 2010, Proceedings
Y2 - 14 October 2010 through 15 October 2010
ER -