A cogent analysis of the underlying complexity of software engineering. Each problem is new; software is the most complex thing humans have ever built; it is impossible to measure complexity of something given that product. Software is fractal in complexity (really?)
N. Niu, S. Easterbrook, und M. Sabetzadeh. 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'05), Budapest, Hungary, IEEE Computer Society, (September 2005)