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The Future of Software Processes

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Unifying the Software Process Spectrum (SPW 2005)

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In response to increasing demands being put onto software-intensive systems, software processes will evolve significantly over the next two decades. This paper identifies seven relatively surprise-free trends – increased emphasis on users and end value; increasing software criticality and need for dependability; increasingly rapid change; increasingly complex systems of systems; increasing needs for COTS, reuse, and legacy software integration; and computational plenty – and two “wild card” trends: increasing software autonomy and combinations of biology and computing; and discusses their likely influences on software processes between now and 2025. It also discusses limitations to software process improvement, and areas of significant software process research and education needs.

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  1. University of Southern California, University Park Campus, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA

    Barry Boehm

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Mingshu Li

  2. CS, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Barry Boehm

  3. Laboratory for Advanced Software Engineering Research (LASER), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 01003, Amherst, MA

    Leon J. Osterweil

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Boehm, B. (2006). The Future of Software Processes. In: Li, M., Boehm, B., Osterweil, L.J. (eds) Unifying the Software Process Spectrum. SPW 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11608035_2

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