The many faces of complexity in software design

José Luiz Fiadeiro

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2297-5_1

The many faces of complexity in software design

José Luiz Fiadeiro

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Abstract

‘Complexity’ and ‘crisis’ have become synonyms in the (brief) history of Software Engineering. The terms ‘component’, ‘decomposition’, ‘structure’ and ‘architecture’ have been associated with methods and techniques proposed over the years to defeat the crisis, from structured programming to object/component based programming and, more recently, service-oriented architectures. This chapter discusses the nature of complexity as it arises in software design, assesses the progress that we have achieved in tackling it, and discusses some of the challenges that still remain.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conquering Complexity
Editors	Mike Hinchey, Lorcan Coyle
Publisher	Springer-Verlag London Ltd
Pages	3-47
Number of pages	45
ISBN (Electronic)	9781447122975
ISBN (Print)	9781447122968
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2297-5_1
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2012

Keywords

Complexity
Agent-based systems
Real-time systems
self-managing systems
service orientation

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General Computer Science

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