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(Q1) Why does Brookes consider software engineering different to other existent forms of engineering?

From reading the study “No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering” I believe Brooks considered software engineering different to other existent forms of engineering because of four main properties of software engineering and them taken together differentiate them from other forms of engineering. These four properties are complexity, conformity, changeability, and invisibility.

He believes that these four properties of software engineering makes it different to other forms of engineering because he believes that no two parts are alike when taking on a software engineering project. Brookes states “Software entities …show more content…

Object Orientated Language – Java,
I believe he would discuss Java as a possible silver bullet because he states, “Many students of the art hold out more hope for object-oriented programming for any other technical fads of the day. I am among them”. He believes an “objects type should be defined by name and set of proper values, instead of data structures”. Which is very similar to JAVA and is why I believe he may possibly discuss Java as a possible bullet.

Graphical Programming-
Brookes stated that he as “persuaded that nothing will” come out of this, but in todays world we have a lot of successful programming languages that uses graphical programming. With the idea of dropping icons representing pre-rolled objects onto a worksheet, and rolling them together. There have been many successful ones since this article such as Appware that was developed by Microsoft in the 90’s. Thus I think he would go back and look at it today as a possible silver …show more content…

His main points for analyzing the model stem around Model execution, Interactive execution, Programmed execution, Exhaustive executions, Code generation, and Verifying consistency between levels.

(Q4) Write a reply to David Parnas (Software Aspects of Strategic Defense Systems) on why he is being too pessimistic, or if in agreement, why the situation today is still much the same.

I do agree with some of the points David is making but my overall opinion is weighing towards him being to pessimistic especially in a time where I feel technology was really starting to develop at greater speeds and that includes software engineering.

Under the limits of software engineering methods he states that we have known for 25 years programming methods are inadequate for large projects. This I feel his him being greatly pessimistic instead of trying to be innovative and creating a new method that does work just like we have today, where many large projects are completed with success from programming

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