Software engineering (English Wikipedia)
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- "ABET Accredited Engineering Programs". April 3, 2007. Archived from the original on June 19, 2010. Retrieved April 3, 2007.
acm.org (Global: 1,200th place; English: 821st place)
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- Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula, IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery (23 February 2015). Software Engineering 2014: Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering (PDF). A Volume of the Computing Curricula Series. IEEE Computer Society and Association for Computing Machinery.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Barbara Simons. "Past ACM Presidents Reflect on Their Service to ACM". Celebrating 75 Years of Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved May 18, 2024.
After the panels' recommendations were submitted, ACM Council concluded that the framework of a licensed professional engineer, originally developed for civil engineers, does not match the professional industrial practice of software engineering and would preclude many of the most qualified software engineers from becoming licensed.
- "Computing Disciplines and Majors" (PDF). Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
computingcareers.acm.org
- ACM (2007). "Computing Degrees & Careers". ACM. Archived from the original on 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2010-11-23.
dl.acm.org
- Linda Hutz Pesante (January 1, 2003). Anthony Ralston; Edwin D. Reilly (eds.). "Software engineering institute (SEI)". Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.: 1611–1613. ISBN 978-0-470-86412-8.
(1) The institute was competitively awarded to Carnegie Mellon in December 1984 by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to improve the state of the practice of software engineering. ... (2) the SEI moves mature solutions of proven value into widespread use; examples include the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) ...
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archive.org (Global: 6th place; English: 6th place)
- McConnell, Steve (August 2003). Professional Software Development: Shorter Schedules, Better Projects, Superior Products, Enhanced Careers. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-321-19367-9., p. 39: "In my opinion, the answer to that question is clear: Professional software development should be engineering. Is it? No. But should it be? Unquestionably, yes. "
bertrandmeyer.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "President's Letter to the ACM Membership" (PDF). Retrieved 27 February 2025.
We must recognize ourselves -- not necessarily all of us, and not necessarily any one of us all the time -- as members of an engineering profession, be it hardware engineering or software engineering, a profession without artificial and irrelevant boundaries like that between "scientific" and "business" applications.
- "The origin of "software engineering"". 4 April 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
bitsavers.org (Global: 3,844th place; English: 1,960th place)
- "Computers and Automation: The Computer Directory and Buyers' Guide, 1965" (PDF). bitsavers.org. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
bloomberg.com (Global: 118th place; English: 85th place)
- Rosenthal, Rachel (August 4, 2020). "Tech Companies Want You to Believe America Has a Skills Gap". Bloomberg. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
bls.gov (Global: 3,091st place; English: 2,103rd place)
- "Computer Software Engineers and Computer Programmers". Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- "Software Developers". Occupational Outlook Handbook. U. S. Bureau of labor Statistics. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- "Software Developers: Occupational Outlook Handbook". U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- "Computer Software Engineer". Bureau of Labor Statistics. March 19, 2010. Archived from the original on July 26, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
- "Software Developers". Bureau of Labor Statistics. January 8, 2014. Retrieved July 21, 2012.
- "Computer Programmers : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics". Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- "Archive By Publication : Beyond the Numbers: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics". www.bls.gov.
books.google.com (Global: 3rd place; English: 3rd place)
- Laplante, Phillip (2007). What Every Engineer Should Know about Software Engineering. Boca Raton: CRC. ISBN 978-0-8493-7228-5. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
- Mills, Harlan D., J. R. Newman, and C. B. Engle, Jr., "An Undergraduate Curriculum in Software Engineering," in Deimel, Lionel E. (1990). Software Engineering Education: SEI Conference 1990, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, April 2–3,... Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-97274-9.,p. 26: "As a practical matter, we regard software engineering as the necessary preparation for the practicing, software development and maintenance professional. The Computer Scientist is preparing for further theoretical studies..."
businessinsider.com (Global: 201st place; English: 139th place)
- Kay, Grace. "Software engineers are panicking about being replaced by AI". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
- Ito, Aki. "ChatGPT spells the end of coding as we know it". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
- Zinkula, Aaron Mok, Jacob. "ChatGPT may be coming for our jobs. Here are the 10 roles that AI is most likely to replace". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
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businesstoday.in (Global: 2,918th place; English: 1,469th place)
- "Software engineer jobs in danger due to ChatGPT-like tools? Here's what Google CEO Sundar Pichai has to say". Business Today. 2023-04-06. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
cips.ca (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Canadian Information Processing Society. "I.S.P. Designation". Retrieved 2007-03-15.
cmu.edu (Global: 2,125th place; English: 1,347th place)
sei.cmu.edu
- "SEI certification page". Sei.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2012-03-25.
cnbc.com (Global: 303rd place; English: 191st place)
- Cohen, Mikaela (15 April 2023). "These are the tech jobs most threatened by ChatGPT and A.I." CNBC. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
cognizant.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Gartner Magic Quadrant" (PDF). Cognizant.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-20. Retrieved 2012-03-25.
computer.org (Global: 6,549th place; English: 4,616th place)
- Bourque, Pierre; Fairley, Richard E. (Dick), eds. (2014). Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge Version 3.0 (SWEBOK). IEEE Computer Society.
- Lori Cameron (October 5, 2008). "Margaret Hamilton: First Software Engineer". Tech News. IEEE Computer Society.
- Alain Abran; James W. Moore; Pierre Bourque; Robert Dupuis; Leonard L. Tripp, eds. (2005) [2004]. "Chapter 1: Introduction to the Guide". Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. IEEE Computer Society. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
The total volume of cited literature is intended to be suitable for mastery through the completion of an undergraduate education plus four years of experience.
- "Software Engineering Code of Ethics" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2012-03-25.
- IEEE (12 November 2008). "CSDA". Retrieved 2010-04-20.
computerworld.com (Global: 3,446th place; English: 2,279th place)
- Thibodaux, Patrick (2006-05-05). "As outsourcing gathers steam, computer science interest wanes". Computerworld.com. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
coursera.org (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "What Does a Software Engineer Do?". coursera. Oct 31, 2022.
designnews.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "The Soon-to-Be-Extinct Embedded Software Engineer". designnews.com. May 10, 2018.
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- Casey, Valentine (2010-08-20). "Virtual software team project management". Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. 16 (2): 83–96. doi:10.1007/s13173-010-0013-3. S2CID 14383734.
doi.org (Global: 2nd place; English: 2nd place)
- Oettinger, A. G. (1966). "President's Letter to the ACM Membership". Commun. ACM. 9 (8). Association for Computing Machinery: 545–546. doi:10.1145/365758.3291288. ISSN 0001-0782. S2CID 53432801.
- Barbara Kitchevnham; David Budgen; Pearl Brereton; Stephen Linkman (2005). "Realising evidence-based software engineering". ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 30 (4): 1–3. doi:10.1145/1082983.1083175.
We believe that software engineering can only advance as an engineering discipline by moving away from its current dependence upon advocacy and analysis, ...
- Parnas, David L. (1998). "Software Engineering Programmes are not Computer Science Programmes". Annals of Software Engineering. 6 (1–4): 19–37. doi:10.1023/A:1018949113292. S2CID 35786237.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: miscellaneous url (link), p. 19: "Rather than treat software engineering as a subfield of computer science, I treat it as an element of the set, {Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering,....}." - Parnas, David L. (1998). "Software Engineering Programmes are not Computer Science Programmes". Annals of Software Engineering. 6 (1–4): 19–37. doi:10.1023/A:1018949113292. S2CID 35786237.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: miscellaneous url (link), p. 20: "This paper argues that the introduction of accredited professional programs in software engineering, programmes that are modelled on programmes in traditional engineering disciplines will help to increase both the quality and quantity of graduates who are well prepared, by their education, to develop trustworthy software products." - Knuth, Donald (1974). "Computer Programming as an Art" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 17 (12): 667–673. doi:10.1145/361604.361612. S2CID 207685720.Transcript of the 1974 Turing Award lecture.
- Jamil, Muhammad Abid; Arif, Muhammad; Abubakar, Normi Sham Awang; Ahmad, Akhlaq (November 2016). "Software Testing Techniques: A Literature Review". 2016 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M). pp. 177–182. doi:10.1109/ICT4M.2016.045. ISBN 978-1-5090-4521-1.
- John C. Knight; Nancy G. Leveson (November 1, 2002). "Should software engineers be licensed?". Communications of the ACM. 45 (11): 87–90. doi:10.1145/581571.581601.
- Casey, Valentine (2010-08-20). "Virtual software team project management". Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. 16 (2): 83–96. doi:10.1007/s13173-010-0013-3. S2CID 14383734.
- Donald J. Bagert (April 1999). "Viewpoint: taking the lead in licensing software engineers". Communications of the ACM. 42 (4): 27–29. doi:10.1145/299157.299163.
- Barry Boehm (September–October 2002). "Software engineering is a value-based contact sport". IEEE Software. 19 (5): 95–96. doi:10.1109/MS.2002.1032863.
evansdata.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Global Developer Population and Demographic Study 2016 V2". Evans Data Corporation. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
forbes.com (Global: 71st place; English: 54th place)
- Fowler, Gary. "Council Post: How Will ChatGPT Affect Jobs?". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
futurism.com (Global: low place; English: 7,115th place)
geeksforgeeks.org (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Software Engineering | Classification of Software Requirements". GeeksforGeeks. 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- "Software Engineering | Software Design Process". GeeksforGeeks. 2019-05-24. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
hackreactor.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Farone, Alison (2020-08-04). "The history of coding and software engineering". Hack Reactor. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
- "The history of coding and software engineering". Hack Reactor. Archived from the original on 2022-03-24. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
hp.com (Global: 4,971st place; English: 3,200th place)
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- IEEE Computer Society. "2006 IEEE computer society report to the IFIP General Assembly" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-04-10.
ilo.org (Global: 2,182nd place; English: 2,511th place)
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- "Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure". International Labour Organisation. Archived from the original on 2026-04-22. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
indiatimes.com (Global: 31st place; English: 19th place)
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- "What is Software Maintenance? Definition of Software Maintenance, Software Maintenance Meaning". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
informit.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Wyrostek, Warren (March 14, 2008). "The Top 10 Problems with IT Certification in 2008". InformIT. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
infoworld.com (Global: 5,156th place; English: 3,760th place)
- Robert Mullins (March 13, 2007). "Software developer growth slows in North America: Study shows Asia will lead in software developer jobs by 2010". InfoWorld. Software Development.
marketplace.org (Global: low place; English: 8,600th place)
medium.com (Global: 651st place; English: 479th place)
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- David Lo (SIGSOFT Awards Chair); Thomas Zimmermann (SIGSOFT Chair) (17 January 2024). "SIGSOFT Awards 2024". ACM SIGSOFT Blog. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
merriam-webster.com (Global: 425th place; English: 373rd place)
- "Definition of SOFTWARE ENGINEERING". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
micsymposium.org (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Akram I. Salah (2002-04-05). "Engineering an Academic Program in Software Engineering" (PDF). 35th Annual Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium. Retrieved 2006-09-13.: "For some, software engineering is just a glorified name for programming. If you are a programmer, you might put 'software engineer' on your business card—never 'programmer' though."
mtu.edu (Global: low place; English: 7,348th place)
- "What is Software Engineering?". Michigan Technological University. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
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- "NCEES Software Engineering Exam Specifications" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-27. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
ncees.org (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "NCEES discontinuing PE Software Engineering exam". National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. 13 March 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
ncl.ac.uk (Global: 5,403rd place; English: 3,489th place)
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- Randall, Brian. "The 1968/69 NATO Software Engineering Reports". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- Peter, Naur; Randell, Brian (7–11 October 1968). Software Engineering: Report of a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee (PDF). Garmisch, Germany: Scientific Affairs Division, NATO. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
- Randell, Brian (10 August 2001). "The 1968/69 NATO Software Engineering Reports". Brian Randell's University Homepage. The School of the Computer Sciences, Newcastle University. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
The idea for the first NATO Software Engineering Conference, and in particular that of adopting the then practically unknown term "software engineering" as its (deliberately provocative) title, I believe came originally from Professor Fritz Bauer.
nypost.com (Global: 376th place; English: 247th place)
- "ChatGPT could make these jobs obsolete". 2023-01-25. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
pearsoned.co.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Sommerville, Ian (2007) [1982]. "1.1.2 What is software engineering?". Software Engineering (8th ed.). Harlow, England: Pearson Education. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-321-31379-9.
Software engineering is an engineering discipline that is concerned with all aspects of software production, from the early stages of system specification to maintaining the system after it has gone into use. The definition highlights two key ideas: (1) engineering discipline—the application of theories, methods, and tools within organizational and financial constraints; and (2) all aspects of software production—including technical development processes, project management, and the creation of supporting tools, methods, and theories.
peo.on.ca (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Professional Engineers Ontario: Welcome to PEO's website". Peo.on.ca. Retrieved 2012-03-25.
psu.edu (Global: 299th place; English: 159th place)
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- Parnas, David L. (1998). "Software Engineering Programmes are not Computer Science Programmes". Annals of Software Engineering. 6 (1–4): 19–37. doi:10.1023/A:1018949113292. S2CID 35786237.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: miscellaneous url (link), p. 19: "Rather than treat software engineering as a subfield of computer science, I treat it as an element of the set, {Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering,....}." - Parnas, David L. (1998). "Software Engineering Programmes are not Computer Science Programmes". Annals of Software Engineering. 6 (1–4): 19–37. doi:10.1023/A:1018949113292. S2CID 35786237.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: miscellaneous url (link), p. 20: "This paper argues that the introduction of accredited professional programs in software engineering, programmes that are modelled on programmes in traditional engineering disciplines will help to increase both the quality and quantity of graduates who are well prepared, by their education, to develop trustworthy software products."
qubit-labs.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Labs, Qubit (29 November 2022). "How Many Programmers are there in the World and in the US? [2023]". Qubit Labs. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
semanticscholar.org (Global: 15th place; English: 8th place)
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- Oettinger, A. G. (1966). "President's Letter to the ACM Membership". Commun. ACM. 9 (8). Association for Computing Machinery: 545–546. doi:10.1145/365758.3291288. ISSN 0001-0782. S2CID 53432801.
- Parnas, David L. (1998). "Software Engineering Programmes are not Computer Science Programmes". Annals of Software Engineering. 6 (1–4): 19–37. doi:10.1023/A:1018949113292. S2CID 35786237.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: miscellaneous url (link), p. 19: "Rather than treat software engineering as a subfield of computer science, I treat it as an element of the set, {Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering,....}." - Parnas, David L. (1998). "Software Engineering Programmes are not Computer Science Programmes". Annals of Software Engineering. 6 (1–4): 19–37. doi:10.1023/A:1018949113292. S2CID 35786237.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: miscellaneous url (link), p. 20: "This paper argues that the introduction of accredited professional programs in software engineering, programmes that are modelled on programmes in traditional engineering disciplines will help to increase both the quality and quantity of graduates who are well prepared, by their education, to develop trustworthy software products." - Knuth, Donald (1974). "Computer Programming as an Art" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 17 (12): 667–673. doi:10.1145/361604.361612. S2CID 207685720.Transcript of the 1974 Turing Award lecture.
- Casey, Valentine (2010-08-20). "Virtual software team project management". Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. 16 (2): 83–96. doi:10.1007/s13173-010-0013-3. S2CID 14383734.
sigsoft.org (Global: low place; English: low place)
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- "Outstanding Research Award". SIGSOFT. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
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ufc.br (Global: low place; English: low place)
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- Knuth, Donald (1974). "Computer Programming as an Art" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 17 (12): 667–673. doi:10.1145/361604.361612. S2CID 207685720.Transcript of the 1974 Turing Award lecture.
utexas.edu (Global: 868th place; English: 634th place)
cs.utexas.edu
- Dijkstra, Edsger W; transcribed by Mario Béland (November 23, 2004) [First published December 3, 1993]. "There is still a war going on (manuscript Austin, 3 December 1993)". E. W. Dijkstra Archive. The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences. Retrieved February 17, 2007.
When the term was coined in 1968 by F.L. Bauer of the Technical University of Munich, I welcomed it. [. . .] I interpreted the introduction of the term "software engineering" as an apt reflection of the fact that the design of software systems was an activity par excellence for the mathematical engineer. [. . .]. As soon the term arrived in the USA, it was relieved of all its technical content. It had to be so for in its original meaning it was totally unacceptable [. . .] In the meantime, software engineering has become an almost empty term, as was nicely demonstrated by Data General who overnight promoted all its programmers to the exalted rank of "software engineer"!
- Dijkstra, E. W. (1988). "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science". Retrieved 2014-01-10.
web.archive.org (Global: 1st place; English: 1st place)
- ACM (2007). "Computing Degrees & Careers". ACM. Archived from the original on 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2010-11-23.
- "The history of coding and software engineering". Hack Reactor. Archived from the original on 2022-03-24. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- Alain Abran; James W. Moore; Pierre Bourque; Robert Dupuis; Leonard L. Tripp, eds. (2005) [2004]. "Chapter 1: Introduction to the Guide". Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. IEEE Computer Society. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
The total volume of cited literature is intended to be suitable for mastery through the completion of an undergraduate education plus four years of experience.
- "ABET Accredited Engineering Programs". April 3, 2007. Archived from the original on June 19, 2010. Retrieved April 3, 2007.
- "NCEES Software Engineering Exam Specifications" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-27. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
- "Software Engineering Code of Ethics" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2012-03-25.
- "Computer Software Engineer". Bureau of Labor Statistics. March 19, 2010. Archived from the original on July 26, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
- "Computer Programmers : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics". Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- "Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure". International Labour Organisation. Archived from the original on 2026-04-22. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
- "Gartner Magic Quadrant" (PDF). Cognizant.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-20. Retrieved 2012-03-25.
worldcat.org (Global: 4th place; English: 4th place)
search.worldcat.org
- Oettinger, A. G. (1966). "President's Letter to the ACM Membership". Commun. ACM. 9 (8). Association for Computing Machinery: 545–546. doi:10.1145/365758.3291288. ISSN 0001-0782. S2CID 53432801.
youtube.com (Global: 13th place; English: 14th place)
- 2018 International Conference on Software Engineering celebrating its 40th anniversary, and 50 years of Software engineering (31 May 2018). "ICSE 2018 – Plenary Sessions – Fred Brooks". YouTube. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
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