A Road Map to Bio-inspired Software Engineering

TL;DR

This paper proposes a comprehensive roadmap for integrating bio-inspired approaches into software engineering methodologies to enhance software development, discusses challenges, and presents initial applications and evaluations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel roadmap for bio-inspired software engineering, emphasizing integration with methodologies and addressing implementation challenges.

Findings

Initial application on various software systems categories

Summary evaluation of the approach

Identification of industrial-scale challenges

Abstract

Software production research is quickly evolving on two parallel approaches: conventional and bio-inspired. The bio-inspired approaches are generally developed and presented as enhancements of the conventional ones. However the conventional approaches benefit from their integration with their global context, through software engineering methodologies, for being advantageous.The integration of bio-inspired approaches with bio-inspired software engineering methodologies will enrich them and let them be irrefutably be the best. This paper identify the motivations to the emergence of such bio-inspired software engineering, presents a first approach to it, with a road map, and some of its challenges.The application of this first approach on different software systems categories is presented with its summary evaluation. However, the evaluation on industrial scale remains a challenge.