SEAug 9, 2015

What Is Software Engineering?

arXiv:1508.02031v21 citations
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This is an incremental contribution for software engineering practitioners and educators.

The article proposes a set of basic notions for software engineering to address conceptual mistakes, aiming to improve quality and productivity in software creation and operation.

A later translation (2015) of the article in Russian published in 1990. The article proposes an approach to defining a set of basic notions for subject area of software engineering discipline. The set of notions is intended to serve as a basis for detection and correction of some widespread conceptual mistakes in the efforts aimed at improving the quality and work productivity in creation and operation of software.

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