List of software engineering topics

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This list complements the software engineering article, giving more details and examples.

For an alphabetical listing of topics, please see List of software engineering topics (alphabetical).

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Software engineers affect society by creating applications. These applications produce value for users, and sometimes produce disasters.

Software engineers build applications that people use.

Applications influence software engineering by pressuring developers to solve problems in new ways. For example, consumer software emphasizes low cost, medical software emphasizes high quality, and Internet commerce software emphasizes rapid development.

Software has played a role in many high-profile disasters.

  • Ariane 5 Flight 501
  • Mars probe
  • Denver International Airport
  • TAURUS — UK share settlement system and dematerialised central share depository.
  • Therac-25 — A radiation therapy machine responsible for six overdoses due to faulty software.
  • Airbus A320 —[citation needed] The Airbus A320, while was controversial in software engineering circles, being the first civilian Fly-by-wire aircraft. In the Airbus flight control systems, the computer has the final say on all decisions, meaning the safety of passengers depends upon the accuracy of the software specification, and the competence of the engineering teams producing the (multiple, independent) software stacks. The Strasbourg A320 crash of Jan 21, 1992 is partially related to software in that poor user interface design was a contributing factor.
  • Failure at Dharan — Patriot Missile clock issue.

Skilled software engineers use technologies and practices from a variety of fields to improve their productivity in creating software and to improve the quality of the delivered product.

Many technologies and practices are (mostly) unique to software engineering, though many of these are shared with computer science.

A platform combines computer hardware and an operating system. As platforms become more powerful and less expensive, applications and tools become more widely available.

Skilled software engineers know a lot of computer science including what is possible and impossible, and what is easy and hard for software.

Discrete mathematics is a key foundation of software engineering.

Other

Deliverables must be developed for many SE projects. Software engineers rarely make all of these deliverables themselves. They usually cooperate with the writers, trainers, installers, marketers, technical support people, and others who make many of these deliverables.

Many people made important contributions to SE technologies, practices, or applications.

See also

See also:

  • In Arabic , software engineering is called هندسة البرمجيات
  • In Chinese, software engineering is called ruǎnjiàn gōngchéng(软件工程)
  • In French, software engineering is called Génie logiciel.
  • In German, software engineering is called Softwaretechnik.
  • In Norwegian, software engineering is called Programvareutvikling.
  • In Spanish, software engineering is called Ingeniería del software,
  • In Portuguese, software engineering is called Engenharia de software,
  • In Korean, software engineering is called 소프트웨어 공학,

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