Ian Sommerville2024-11-162024-11-162011978-0-13-703515-1https://gmitlibrary.net/handle/123456789/212As I was writing the final chapters in this book in the summer of 2009, I realized that software engineering was 40 years old. The name ‘software engineering’ was proposed in 1969 at a NATO conference to discuss software development problems—large software systems were late, did not deliver the functionality needed by their users, cost more than expected, and were unreliable.enBook