Artefacts in software engineering: a fundamental positioning

Fundamental principles of software engineering - a journey

A set of fundamental principles can act as an enabler in the establishment of a discipline; however, software engineering still lacks a universally recognized set of fundamental principles. This article presents a progress report on an attempt to identify and develop a consensus on a set of candidate fundamental principles. A fundamental principle is less specific and more enduring than methodo...

Requirements Specifications and Scenarios: Two Design Artefacts in Software Engineering

Software Artefacts as Equipment: A New Conception to Software Development using Reusable Software Artefacts

Through the lens of Heidegger’s analysis of equipment, this study observes ‘software reuse’ – a popular phenomenon in the world. It presents an alternative conceptual view of the software artefact as ‘equipment’. This view provides a theoretical underpinning to this prominent practice to recognize software artefacts, as equipment. Employing the case study method, this study reports preliminary ...

A search for fundamental principles of software engineering

In the Wyear history of software development, various methodologies and techniques have been proposed to facilitate the development of software responsive to needs. Most have proved to be more specific to the then-current state of technology than has been understood at the lime. At this time. enough examples have accumulated that we can begin to perceive underlying principles that may be fundam...

Approach to E-Learning Fundamental Aspects of Software Engineering

New theoretical and applied aspects of software engineering are introduced, viz.: technologies of developing programs and reusable components with MS.NET, CORBA, Java, Eclipse environments; assembling them into applied systems and their families; embedding components into the modern environments for shared usage; modeling applied domains in ontological DSLlike languages with tools like MS DSL T...