Alfonso Fuggetta
Elisabetta Di Nitto
ABSTRACT
This paper is a travelogue of Software Process research and practice in the past 15 years. It is based on the paper written by one of the authors for the FOSE Track at ICSE 2000. Since then, the landscape of Software Process research has significantly evolved: technological breakthroughs and market disruptions have defined new and complex challenges for Software Engineering researchers and practitioners.
In this paper we provide an overview of the current status of research and practice, highlight new challenges, and provide a non-exhaustive list of research issues that, in our view, need to be tackled by future research work.
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