List of software engineering topics

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This list complements the software engineering article, giving more details and examples.

For an alphabetical listing of topics, please see List of software engineering topics (alphabetical).

Contents

[edit] Technologies and practices

Skilled software engineers use technologies and practices from a variety of fields to improve their productivity in creating software and to improve the quality of the delivered product.

[edit] Software engineering topics

Many technologies and practices are (mostly) confined to software engineering, though many of these are shared with computer science.

[edit] Programming languages

[edit] Programming paradigm, based on a programming language technology

[edit] Databases

[edit] Graphical user interfaces

[edit] Programming tools

[edit] Libraries

[edit] Design languages

[edit] Patterns, document many common programming and project management techniques

[edit] Processes and methodologies

[edit] Platforms

A platform combines computer hardware and an operating system. As platforms grow more powerful and less costly, applications and tools grow more widely available.

[edit] Other Practices

[edit] Other tools

[edit] Computer science topics

Skilled software engineers know a lot of computer science including what is possible and impossible, and what is easy and hard for software.

[edit] Mathematics topics

Discrete mathematics is a key foundation of software engineering.

Other

[edit] Life cycle phases

[edit] Deliverables

Deliverables must be developed for many SE projects. Software engineers rarely make all of these deliverables themselves. They usually cooperate with the writers, trainers, installers, marketers, technical support people, and others who make many of these deliverables.

[edit] Business roles

[edit] Management topics

[edit] Business topics

[edit] Community topics

[edit] Pioneers

Many people made important contributions to SE technologies, practices, or applications.

See also

[edit] Notable publications

See also:

[edit] Professional topics

[edit] Influence on society

Software engineers affect society by creating applications. These applications produce value for users, and sometimes produce disasters.

[edit] Applications

Software engineers build software (applications, operating systems, system software) that people use.

Applications influence software engineering by pressuring developers to solve problems in new ways. For example, consumer software emphasizes low cost, medical software emphasizes high quality, and Internet commerce software emphasizes rapid development.

[edit] Disasters

Software has played a role in many high-profile disasters.


[edit] Other terms

[edit] Related fields

[edit] Different languages

  • In German, software engineering is called Softwaretechnik.
  • In Hebrew, software engineering is called הנדסת תוכנה.
  • In Icelandic, software engineering is called Hugbúnaðarverkfræði.
  • In Italian, software engineering is called Ingegneria del software,
  • In Korean, software engineering is called 소프트웨어 공학,
  • In Norwegian, software engineering is called Programvareutvikling.
  • In Polish, software engineering is called Inżynieria oprogramowania.
  • In Portuguese, software engineering is called Engenharia de software,
  • In Spanish, software engineering is called Ingeniería del software,
  • In Turkish, software engineering is called yazılım mühendisliği.
  • In Greek, software engineering is called τεχνολογία λογισμικού.

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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