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