Engineering Within Boundaries When Software Has None

I served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering for four years between 2010 and 2013. Then and now I advocated for a broadening of software engineering to incorporate a range of multi-disciplinary inputs and to address human and social concerns. In this retrospective editorial, I reflect on the considerable progress that has been made in the intervening years and make the case for an even more radical reframing of the software engineering discipline. Such a reframing will require new trans-disciplinary methodologies for research and practice, and new representations of the lived experiences and values of software users. I suggest two conceptual shorthands for what I advocate: Living Labs 2.0 and Context 2.0. Dear reader, please forgive my indulgence.