Linda Northrop

The Impact of Scale on Software Engineering - November 15th, 2013 

In 2006, Ultra-Large-Scale Systems: The Software Challenge of the Future (ISBN 0-9786956-0-7) documented the results of a year-long study on ultra-large, complex, distributed systems.     Ultra-large-scale (ULS) systems are socio-technical, cyber-physical ecosystems of ultra-large size on one or many dimensions – number of lines of code; number of people employing the system for different purposes; amount of data stored, accessed, manipulated, and refined; number of connections and interdependencies among software components; number of hardware elements to which they interface.   The characteristics of such systems require changes in traditional software development and management practices, which in turn require multi-disciplinary perspective and research.    This talk shares a perspective on the post study reality – a perspective based on research motivated by the study and direct experiences with ULS systems. 

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