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Software Design: Past and Present

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The design of software has been one of the greatest challenges in the development of information systems. From its fairly primitive beginnings in the form of toggling on/off switches and punching holes in paper tapes, software has come to dominate the cost of all forms of information systems. Yet, instead of gaining increasing mastery over the processes of software design, we continue to be challenged by new software technologies, greater quality expectations, and higher complexities of integrated systems. Thus, software design remains an essentially wicked problem that is typically crafted to each software-intensive system developed.

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    Alan Hevner

  2. School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University, 130 East 9th Street, Claremont, CA, 91711, USA

    Samir Chatterjee

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Hevner, A., Chatterjee, S. (2010). Software Design: Past and Present. In: Design Research in Information Systems. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 22. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5653-8_8

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