Conquering the Eight-Tailed Dragon - An Attempt to Deal with Structural and Behavioral Complexities

Since the inception of software engineering in the late 1960's, its main target to attack has been complexity of software. But until the mid 1990's, software complexity mostly stemmed from its size, i.e. the larger, the more complex. Characteristics of software in the past decade changed drastically. They can be described with four epithets: ubiquitous, evolving, diverse and reliability-sensitive.

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