Software engineering

Software engineering is the study and an application of engineering to the design, development, and maintenance of software.

Description

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' definition is "Research, design, develop, and test operating systems-level software, compilers, and network distribution software for medical, industrial, military, communications, aerospace, business, scientific, and general computing applications."

Definitions

Typical formal definitions of software engineering are:

• "The application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software"
• "An engineering discipline that is concerned with all aspects of software production"
• "The establishment and use of sound engineering principles in order to economically obtain software that is reliable and works efficiently on real machines."

See also

• Artifact (software development)
• Computer science
• Design by contract
• Electrical engineering
• Engineering
• Object-role modeling
• Quality control
• Software architecture
• Software defect
• Software design
• Software development
• Software development process
• Software requirements
• Software testing
• Syntax (programming languages)
• Unified Modeling Language
• Unit testing
• Web engineering

External links

• Software engineering @ Wikipedia