Chapter 2 Embedded Software Engineering and Quality Characteristics

DOI: 10.1201/9781003390923-3

Software engineering is an engineering methodology that guides the development and maintenance of computer software. It is a discipline that studies the construction and maintenance of effective, practical, and high-quality software with engineering methods. This chapter will use limited space to introduce the embedded software engineering process and management technology, and finally give the quality characteristics of embedded software.

2.1 Embedded Software Engineering

IEEE has the following definitions in the glossary of software engineering terms:

Software engineering is: (ADS2) Applying engineering methods to software processes, that is, ...

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