Software engineering

Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development.^[1]^[2]^[3] A practitioner, a software engineer, applies the engineering design process to develop software.

The terms programmer and coder overlap software engineer, but they imply only the construction aspect of typical software engineer workload.^[4]

A software engineer applies a software development process,^[1]^[5] which involves the definition, implementation, testing, management and maintenance of software systems and with development of the software development process itself.

^ ^a ^b Abran et al. 2004
^ ACM (2007). "Computing Degrees & Careers". ACM. Retrieved 2010-11-23.
^ Laplante, Phillip (2007). What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering. Boca Raton: CRC. ISBN 978-0-8493-7228-5. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
^ "Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers". The Atlantic. 5 November 2015.
^ Cite error: The named reference swebookv3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[BoDu04-1] Abran et al. 2004

[ACM_2020-2] ACM (2007). "Computing Degrees & Careers". ACM. Retrieved 2010-11-23.

[Laplante_2007-3] Laplante, Phillip (2007). What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering. Boca Raton: CRC. ISBN 978-0-8493-7228-5. Retrieved 2011-01-21.

[4] "Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers". The Atlantic. 5 November 2015.

[swebookv3-5] Cite error: The named reference swebookv3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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