3.4 Principles of Software Engineering
Many students of software engineering as well as practicing software engineers have asked if there are natural laws or principles in software engineering similar to those we find in other disciplines—for example, something equivalent to laws of motion or laws of thermodynamics. We in software engineering do not have a set of laws. We do have several sets of proposed principles of software engineering . These principles have evolved through numerous years of past experience and many are well accepted. Because software engineering is still young and still developing, the existing principles will continue to be modified and new ones added. In this section we will introduce some of them.
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