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Software Engineering

Software engineering is a systematic approach to software development, operation, and maintenance, emerging from the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference. It aims to improve software quality, affordability, maintainability, and speed of development, although its definition and adherence to classical engineering principles are debated. Despite its relatively young status, it has been recognized as a promising profession, being rated as the best job in America in 2006.

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Software Engineering

Software engineering is a systematic approach to software development, operation, and maintenance, emerging from the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference. It aims to improve software quality, affordability, maintainability, and speed of development, although its definition and adherence to classical engineering principles are debated. Despite its relatively young status, it has been recognized as a promising profession, being rated as the best job in America in 2006.

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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach


to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these
approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software.

The term software engineering first appeared in the 1968 NATO Software Engineering
Conference and was meant to provoke thought regarding the current "software crisis" at
the time. Since then, it has continued as a profession and field of study dedicated to
creating software that is of higher quality, more affordable, maintainable, and quicker to
build. Since the field is still relatively young compared to its sister fields of engineering,
there is still much debate around what software engineering actually is, and if it conforms
to the classical definition of engineering. It has grown organically out of the limitations
of viewing software as just programming. "Software development" is a much used term
in industry which is more generic and does not necessarily subsume the engineering
paradigm. Although it is questionable what impact it has had on actual software
development over the last more than 40 years, the field's future looks bright according to
Money Magazine and Salary.com who rated "software engineering" as the best job in
America in 2006.

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