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Software engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Software engineering is "(1) the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, that is, the application of engineering to software," and "(2) the study of approaches as in (1)." – IEEE Standard 610.12 |
 | | Software Engineering is considered by many to be an engineering discipline because there are pragmatic approaches and expected characteristics of engineers. |
 | | Experimental software engineering is a branch of software engineering interested in devising experiments on software, in collecting data from these experiments, and in devising laws and theories from this data. |
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