摘要
In the past 40 years, software engineering has emerged as an important sub-field of computer science and has made significant contribution to the software industry. Now it is gradually becoming a new independent discipline. This paper presents a survey of software engineering development from a research perspective. Firstly, the history of software engineering is reviewed with focus on the driving forces of software technology, the software engineering framework and the milestones of software engineering development. Secondly, after reviewing the past academic efforts, the current research activities are surveyed and new challenges brought by Internet are analyzed. Software engineering researches and activities in China are also reviewed. The work in Peking University is described as a representative.
In the past 40 years, software engineering has emerged as an important sub-field of computer science and has made significant contribution to the software industry. Now it is gradually becoming a new independent discipline. This paper presents a survey of software engineering development from a research perspective. Firstly, the history of software engineering is reviewed with focus on the driving forces of software technology, the software engineering framework and the milestones of software engineering development. Secondly, after reviewing the past academic efforts, the current research activities are surveyed and new challenges brought by Internet are analyzed. Software engineering researches and activities in China are also reviewed. The work in Peking University is described as a representative.
基金
This work was supported by several government-funded projects, including the National Key Projects in the State 6th to 10th Five-Year Plan, the National High Technology Development 863 Program of China, the National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank our research group for their inspiration and support in the past two decades. Due to the space limit and the language, so many papers and reports, especially in Chinese, referred by this paper are omitted here. We would like to thank the authors of these materials.
