Re-founding software engineering – SEMAT at the age of three (keynote abstract)
Ivar Jacobson, Ian Spence, Pontus Johnson, Mira Kajko‐Mattsson · 2012
Software engineering is gravely hampered by immature practices. Specific problems include: The prevalence of fads more typical of the fashion industry than an engineering discipline; a huge number of methods and method variants, with differences little understood and artificially magnified; the lack of credible experimental evaluation and validation; and the split between industry practice and academic research.