Monitoring software technology evolution, one trend at a time

The ability to model the evolution of software technology trends is valuable to many stakeholders in industry, academia, and government. Yet we often depend exclusively on the opinions of alleged experts to make predictions on trend evolution. In this paper we discuss an ongoing long term effort at bringing a measure of quantitative analysis to this discipline. We see our contributions as complementing expert opinions, not substituting for them.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SEDE
• Authors: Yanzhi Bai, Ali Mili
• Keywords: Long Term Effort, SEDE 2007, Software Engineering, Software Technology Trends, Trend Evolution