The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering
- ISBN-10
- 0321903420
- ISBN-13
- 9780321903426
- Category
- Computers
- Pages
- 452
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pearson Education
- Author
- Capers Jones
Description
Pioneering software engineer Capers Jones has written the first and only definitive history of the entire software engineering industry. Drawing on his extraordinary vantage point as a leading practitioner for several decades, Jones reviews the entire history of IT and software engineering, assesses its impact on society, and previews its future. One decade at a time, Jones assesses emerging trends and companies, winners and losers, new technologies, methods, tools, languages, productivity/quality benchmarks, challenges, risks, professional societies, and more. He quantifies both beneficial and harmful software inventions; accurately estimates the size of both the US and global software industries; and takes on "unexplained mysteries" such as why and how programming languages gain and lose popularity.
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