A New Software Engineering

I. Jacobson, Professor, Chairman, e-mail: ivar@ivarjacobson.com, E. Seidewitz, Chief Technology Officer, Ivar Jacobson International, Switzerland (Editor-translator B. A. Pozin, Professor, MIEM of National Research University Higher School of Economics, Chairman, SEMAT Russian Chapter, e-mail: bpozin@ec-leasing.ru)

The shortcomings of the existing state of software engineering, presents the main ideas and directions of "refounding" of software engineering as an engineering discipline. SEMAT kernel — a minimum set of entities of methodology or method (called alpha) and relations between them formulated. Defined set of characteristics of the states of alphas on the target software product creation with prescribed requirements to it. This provides an opportunity to systematically assess the "degree of progress" project and the "state of health" endeavor for its implementation. The ways of the phased development of software engineering as applied science are described.

Keywords: SEMAT, SEMAT kernel, alpha, control states, method, practice, software system, area of concerns, control cards

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