The Only Constant Is Change

IEEE Software editor-in-chief Forrest Shull discusses the magazine's recent editorial board meeting and some of the discussions the group had about where software development is headed, including refactoring and reengineering, technical debt, measurement, cloud computing, user experiences, and effective project management. In addition, he describes the recent Software Experts Summit 2013, which focused on smart data science and the International Conference on Software Engineering's Software Engineering in Practice award, selected by IEEE Software. The first Web extra at http://youtu.be/BRioqQenavA is a video interview in which John Howie of the Cloud Security Alliance expands on his talk at Software Experts Summit 2013 "Big Data: Answering Questions and Solving Society's Problems, but at What Cost?" The second Web extra at http://youtu.be/6jm8mZTQsnw is a video interview in which Microsoft's James Whittaker expands on his talk at Software Experts Summit 2013 (SES13) about the future of the Web and search. The third Web extra at http://youtu.be/aCypdSuCDQs is a video interview in which IEEE Software editor in chief Forrest Shull speaks with Jane Cleland-Huang of DePaul University about the Software Engineering in Practice Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering 2013, presented by IEEE Software.