Academic Legitimacy of the Software Engineering Discipline

Abstract

This report examines the academic substance of software engineering. It identifies the basic research questions and the methods used to solve them. What is learned during this research constitutes the body of knowledge of software engineering. The report then discusses at length what about software makes its production so difficult and makes software engineering so challenging an intellectual discipline.... Academic, Software engineering, Contributions, Research.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA260241

Entities

People

  • Daniel M. Berry

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Debugging
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Psychology
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools
  • Software Metrics
  • Software Testing
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Strategic Security Studies