Software Engineering Radio

Recording Venue: Skype
Guest(s):
Chuck Connell
Host(s): Michael
Michael discusses with his guest Chuck Connell the differences between software engineering and computer science. What makes software engineering so unpredictable, with so few formal results? And how can we advance the field of software engineering without these results?

Links:

• Grady Booch’s handbook of software architecture
• Steve McConnell’s blog about software development
• NASA page about formal software methods
• Chuck Connell’s other essays about software engineering
• Article: “Difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science”

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Recording Venue:
Guest(s): Gregor Kiczales

Host(s): Markus
In this Episode we have the pleasure of talking with Gregor Kiczales. Gregor is one of the fathers of aspect-oriented programming (AOP). Today he is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia. Back in his days at Xerox Parc, he and a number of other people worked on the early forms of AOP as well as on some of its forerunners, such as meta object protocols. In this interview, we talk about a number of interesting topics, such as the history of AOP, the relationship of AO to interceptors, the industry acceptance of AOP, early aspects (i.e. using AO in development phased before implementation) as well as adoption strategies for AOP.

Links:

• A link collection on this topic
• Information about Early Aspects
• Information about Meta Object Protocols at Parc
• aosd.net, the home of AOP on the net
• The homepage of the AOSD conference where we met for the interview
• Gregor’s MOP book, The Art of the Meta Object Protocol
• Gregor’s homepage
• AOP@Work series of articles at IBM developerWorks
• AspectJ
• Spring AOP
• JBoss AOP

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