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This special issue offers insights into the viability, or perhaps the
inevitability, of OSSD and brings forward the most effective practices known
today. It also points the way to what needs to be done to make OSSD more
accessible to all practitioners.
Take a walk back in time to consider notable milestones and
accomplishments, from different perspectives, in the software industry and in
the history of software development.
>>>This Issue's Highlights
From the Editor
25 Years of Software (PDF)
This overview summarizes how experts in requirements, design, architecture,
software technology and tools, interface design, and more view their
areas’ notable milestones and accomplishments.| Hakan Erdogmus
Guest Editors' Introduction
Opportunistic Software Systems Development: Making Systems from What's
Available (PDF)
OSSD is a reality today and for the foreseeable future. Despite all its
difficulties, we persist in trying to compose systems from readily available
components, including other whole systems. What's the state of the art? What
are the trends we need to know about? |
Cornelius Ncube, Patricia Oberndorf, and Anatol W. Kark
New Department: Career Development
Licensing Software Engineers? (PDF)
To further your professional development, should you aim to become a
licensed professional software engineer? When and where is licensing
important? | Philippe
Kruchten
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