50 Years of Software Engineering

50 Years of Software : Key Principles for Quality

Five decades of software development have come and gone, and defective software is the norm; high quality, the exception. From the Millennium Bug to holes in network security, through a litany of catastrophic software defects in between: You have to look back and wonder why we still don’t have generalpurpose technologies that let all programmers write reliable software at a reasonable cost in a...

Chemical Engineering Software and Legal Protection Thereof

In recent years, an increasing number of Chemical Engineering Software (CES), which play an important role in improving efficiency in the petroleum industry, has been introduced to the                market. Generally, software is the product of intellectual creativity, but protection of the intellectual property residing in software is the subject of some controversy.  This paper explores the ...

50 years of Sterillium®

Twenty-eight years of component-based software engineering

The idea of developing software components was envisioned more than forty years ago. In the past two decades, Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) has emerged as a distinguishable approach in software engineering, and it has attracted the attention of many researchers, which has led to many results being published in the research literature. There is a huge amount of knowledge encapsulat...

Fourteen Years of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich

A Chair of Software Engineering existed at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, from 1 October 2001 to 31 January 2016, under my leadership. Our work, summarized here, covered a wide range of theoretical and practical topics, with object technology in the Eiffel method as the unifying thread1.