Title: No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
Abstract: But, as we look to the horizon of a decade hence, we see no silver bullet. There is no single development, in either technology or in management technique, that by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. In this article, I shall try to show why, by examining both the nature of the software problem and the properties of the bullets proposed.
Publication Year: 1987
Publication Date: 1987-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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