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Scaling up: a research agenda for software engineering

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 33, Issue 3

Pages 281 - 293

https://doi.org/10.1145/77481.77482

Published: 01 March 1990 Publication History

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The following excerpts have been gleaned from a report by the Computer Science and Technology Board that summarizes the deliberations of a group of software engineers participating in a CSTB workshop that focused on setting research priorities.

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Scaling up: a research agenda for software engineering
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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Communications of the ACM Volume 33, Issue 3

March 1990

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DOI:10.1145/77481

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