title: Milestones in software engineering and knowledge engineering history: a comparative review.
abstract: We present a review of the historical evolution of software engineering, intertwining it with the history of knowledge engineering because "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." This retrospective represents a further step forward to understanding the current state of both types of engineerings; history has also positive experiences; some of them we would like to remember and to repeat. Two types of engineerings had parallel and divergent evolutions but following a similar pattern. We also define a set of milestones that represent a convergence or divergence of the software development methodologies. These milestones do not appear at the same time in software engineering and knowledge engineering, so lessons learned in one discipline can help in the evolution of the other one.
authors.affiliation: Department of Informatics, University of Almería, Spain.
authors.forename: Isabel M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: del Águila
authors.affiliation: Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Murcia, Spain.
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Palma
authors.affiliation: Department of Informatics, University of Almería, Spain.
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Túnez
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software / Q000266:history