Abstract
But, as we look to the horizon of a decade hence, we see no silver bullet. There is no single development, in either technology or in management technique, that by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. In this article, I shall try to show why, by examining both the nature of the software problem and the properties of the bullets proposed.
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Silver bulletComputer scienceSoftware engineeringSoftwareHistory of computingComputer securityProgramming languageAlgorithm
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- 1987
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- article
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 10-19
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- 3141
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Brooks
(1987).
No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering.
Computer
, 20
(4)
, 10-19.
https://doi.org/10.1109/mc.1987.1663532
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- DOI
- 10.1109/mc.1987.1663532