E-MailHow Software Engineering Is an Oxymoron
I recall a conference presentation titled "Software engineering? An Oxymoron?" that I attended about five years ago. The speaker was pushing the idea that the software development practice had to borrow concepts from the engineering domain, where the formal approach in design and build was a common practice consolidated over 2,000 years. The title was so-named to make the audience realize that software projects fail because of the actual way of realizing software, which is not aligned with the formal classical engineering practice. The point was that we ought to be more strict and formal. This idea, even if very interesting, is not sufficiently analyzed: there are other key points in this comparison.
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