Abstract

This paper appears in Experimental Software Engineering Issues: Critical Assessment and Future Directives, Proceedings of Dagstuhl-Workshop, edited by H. Dieter Rombach, Victor R. Basili , and Richard Selby,, September 1992, published by Springer-Verlag, #706, Lecture Notes in Computer Software, August 1993. modeling research that does exist has centered on the software product, specifically mathematical models of the program function. We have not sufficiently emphasized models for other components, e.g., processes, resources, defects, etc., the logical and physical integration of these models, the evaluation and analysis of the models via experimentation, the refinement and tailoring of the models to an application environment, and the access and use of these models in an appropriate fashion, on various types of software projects from an engineering point of view. The research is mostly bottom-up, done in isolation. It is the packaging of a technology rather than the solving of a problem or the understanding of a primitive of the discipline. We need research that helps establish a scientific and engineering basis for software engineering. To this end, the research methodologies required involve the need to build, analyze and evaluate models of the software processes and products as well as various aspects of the environment in which the software is being built, e.g the people, the organization, etc. It is especially important to study the interactions of these models. The goal is to develop the conceptual scientific foundations of software engineering upon which future researchers can build. This is often a process of discovering and validating small but important concepts that can be applied in many different ways and that can be used to build more complex and advan...

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