The Soft New World

Interesting evolution is always unexpected. The evolution of species plays out over eons; it is only through the long-lens of hindsight do w...

Languages of software development operate at several levels: facilitating expectations from a software system to be shared between stakehold...

“You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is Construction. Ingenuity is at work. But...

The first law of software engineering is that there are no laws of software engineering, at least, yet! As the recently deceased software en...

For as young a field as software engineering, history is not just something to do with the past. It is also very much what is unfolding in t...

The central challenges for software engineering are complexity and change . Software engineering’s response to these challenges comes in two...

Every engineering discipline starts off in response to some pressing problem. Software engineering confronts the problems of change and comp...