8 Software Engineering
8.1 Software Engineering Overview
Software engineering refers to the development of software products using scientific principles, methods, and procedures. The outcome of software engineering is a reliable software product (TutorialsPoint, 2022).
The term “software engineering” was created in the 1960s when researchers began to address what many saw as a “software crisis”, defined by Krueger (1992) as “the problem of building large, reliable software systems in a reliable, cost-effective way”. To this point, industry and academia had concentrated on developing capable and competent hardware. As a result, powerful and inexpensive machines were readily available.
The next step was to create ...
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