scholarly journals Software Engineering: Tools and Methods: Proceedings of the 1978 Aarhus Workshop

1980 ◽  
Vol 9 (125) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Derrett ◽  
Karen Møller ◽  
Mike Spier ◽  
Michael J. Bennett

This is the record of a meeting held at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, 23-26 May, 1978. The meeting was a workshop concerned with Software Engineering. A mixed group of Computer Scientists met for 4 days with the intention of exchanging knowledge and the hope of becoming wiser. Herein is a small glint of their wisdom. The workshop was organised as a mixture of formal presentations and discussions. The organisers had given titles to the various sessions but these were only used as guidelines, and the discussions in particular ranged far and wide, sometimes heated, and sometimes rather undisciplined.

1988 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
C. J. Rawlings

To summarize,Software engineering Environmentsprovides a useful overview of recent progress in software engineering tools and methods; particularly from a UK perspective. The majority of the contributions are well-written but the general paucity of introductory material and the level of technical detail in some chapters might prove daunting to readers unfamiliar with software engineering. It would have been helpful if the editor had made more effort to draw out the common themes and important issues; either by linking sections of the book with short discussion (as Hawley did forArtificial Intelligence Programming Environments) which helps to smooth over the changes in prose style or by cross-referencing points made by different authors. As it stands the result is rather a peculiar hybrid between a conference proceedings and a multi-author text book.


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