Some people don’t realize this, but software engineering has been around for quite a while now. The roots of the whole discipline began at around the 60’s. People only used computers for calculations, and computations (Duh) for scientific projects. However, people started to notice that there was a lot of potential in computers, and started to see things around it. That’s when the idea of software engineering appeared.
The whole thing about people now making software in order to optimize the use of the machines sounds really cool doesn’t it? Well it was, however the transition wasn’t pretty. A lot of people had been working for a while now in the development and the maintenance of hardware, but with the new trend of software some of them needed to adapt. People without experience had to start getting the hang of the idea of developing software or there would be no bread for them. People that knew software were scares. Not only that, but people didn’t really know how to write software at all. All they had was a black page, and a goal. People were looking for a “silver bullet”. The ultimate solution that would solve the problem during this software crisis. This went on from 1965 to 1985. So a really long time. During the following years, people notice that there would be no “silver bullet”. There is no magic key to success. People now adopted the idea that technologies and the different branches from them are there to increase productivity and quality in areas.
With the goal now clear. Developers found different ways of achieving this. Things started to progress in a positive matter. New tools where developed. Something that marked a big growth in the development of
