Software Engineering Timeline: major areas of interest and multidisciplinary trends
This provides a historical perspective for software engineers, but is incremental as it reviews existing knowledge rather than presenting new research.
This paper reviews major milestones and areas of interest in Software Engineering since 1968, helping practitioners appreciate current practices and providing insights into future trends in this essential discipline.
Society today cannot run without software and by extension, without Software Engineering. Since this discipline emerged in 1968, practitioners have learned valuable lessons that have contributed to current practices. Some have become outdated but many are still relevant and widely used. From the personal and incomplete perspective of the authors, this paper not only reviews the major milestones and areas of interest in the Software Engineering timeline helping software engineers to appreciate the state of things, but also tries to give some insights into the trends that this complex engineering will see in the near future.