No Silver Bullet
Software Engineering, Fred Brooks, Order of Magnitude, Accidental Complexity, Essential Complexity, High Level Language, Fortran
Omniscriptum (Publisher)
Published on 24. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-613-2-87167-1 (ISBN)
Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. "No Silver Bullet
- Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering" is a widely discussed
paper on software engineering written by Fred Brooks in 1986. Brooks
argues that "there is no single development, in either technology or
management technique, which by itself promises even one order of
magnitude [tenfold] improvement within a decade in productivity, in
reliability, in simplicity." He also states that "we cannot expect ever
to see two-fold gains every two years" in software development, like
there is in hardware development. Brooks makes a distinction between
accidental complexity and essential complexity, and asserts that most of
what software engineers now do is devoted to the essential, so shrinking
all the accidental activities to zero will not give an
order-of-magnitude improvement. Brooks advocates addressing the
essential parts of the software process.
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Language
English
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-613-2-87167-1 (9786132871671)
Schweitzer Classification