A Virtual Environment Framework for Software Engineering
How do you conquer the problem of scaling software development to hundreds or thousands of simultaneous workers using thousands or hundreds of thousands of project artifacts during the course of development of a software product?
In A Virtual Environment Framework for Software Engineering, we illustrate how Columbia University researchers developed a groundbreaking framework which enabled the application of Virtual Environment techniques for the creation of Software Immersion Environments, in which project team members (developers, project managers, testers, etc.) were able to walk among project artifacts in a computer-generated 3D space as though they were real objects: a key advance in the history of software development.
It is my hope that publication of A Virtual Environment Framework for Software Engineering will stimulate further research along these lines, bringing us ever closer to the dream of achieving the holy grail of so-called "six-sigma" error rates (i.e. 99.999999% defect free), during the development of future software projects.
