SEI Asserts Bold Vision for Engineering Future Software Systems

In as little as 10 to 15 years, software engineering may look more like a technical conversation between humans and computers than a process of manually refining specifications and code, and the software ecosystem must prepare for that future. That is just one of the conclusions of a study titled "Architecting the Future of Software Engineering: A National Agenda for Software Engineering Research & Development" that was released today by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. For this study, the SEI engaged the software engineering community and assembled an advisory board of senior thought leaders across commercial industry, academia and government, with participation from Microsoft, Google, SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, DARPA and others. The board was chaired by Deb Frincke, associate laboratory director for national security sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. With their input, the study team worked to create the multiyear research and development vision and roadmap for engineering next-generation software-reliant systems.