A NEW PARADIGM FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

A ''software crisis,'' identified more than twenty years ago, still ex ists today. This article discusses how that embarrassing predicament m ay now be relieved using a living systems model (LSM). The LSM with it s critical subsystems and other crucial key concepts can form a very p owerful conceptual tool in the software engineering process of specify ing and designing computer programs. The proposed method can be seen a s an extension of the object-oriented approaches currently in use. The LSM also can form a contextual ramification for the supported system, the programming system and the programmed system, with their obvious interdependencies.