Research on the Developmental Situation to Software Development Method

Developmental situation of the software development method in the past was studied. In the past developmental form main contain these: from only considering programming to fully considering total developing process; from the linear development method to iterative development method; from rough qualitative analysis to tight and precise quantitative analysis; from developmental mode of lower efficiency to developmental mode of high efficiency; from the developmental process of walking the chalk to flexible developmental process. Some regularity in the development of software development method are pointed out: new way of thinking can propel the development of software development methods; the change of condition of the goal software can propel the development of software development methods; new developmental tools can propel the development of software development methods; new developmental field can propel the development of software development methods. The efficient path to propel the development of software development method is presented: the development of software development methods is propelled by inheritance the past knowledge of software development, the development of software development methods is propelled by learning and absorbing knowledge of other domain, the development of software development methods is propelled by innovating.