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Cross Fertilization in Software Engineering

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2020)

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Software engineering is related to a set of disciplines both inside and outside computing. One of the aspects to consider in the development of a discipline is cross fertilization. In this paper, author reviews the cross fertilization produced by related disciplines in Software Engineering. The influences come from Computer Engineering and Computer Science inside computing outside this field quality and project management, naming just a few of them. More in particular by focusing on specific technologies, author will overview bidirectional relationships between two of the most promising technologies nowadays namely: blockchain and machine learning.

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Colomo-Palacios, R. (2020). Cross Fertilization in Software Engineering. In: Yilmaz, M., Niemann, J., Clarke, P., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1251. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_1

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