Software Engineering

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Chapter1 - History of software engineering & software Engineering as a Profession
3. Chapter2 - Software design & Modeling languages for software design
4. Chapter3 - Software development & Software Testing
5. Chapter4 - Software development process, Computer-aided Software engineering
Software quality

Introduction
Software engineering
The new Airbus A380 uses a substantial amount of software to create a "paperless"
cockpit. Software engineering successfully maps and plans the millions of lines of code
comprising the plane's software
Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable
approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of
these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software.
The term software engineering first appeared in the 1968 NATO Software Engineering
Conference and was meant to provoke thought regarding the current "software crisis" at
the time. Since then, it has continued as a profession and field of study dedicated to
creating software that is of higher quality, more affordable, maintainable, and quicker to
build. Since the field is still relatively young compared to its sister fields of engineering,
there is still much debate around what software engineering actually is, and if it conforms
to the classical definition of engineering. It has grown organically out of the limitations
of viewing software as just programming. "Software development" is a much used term
in industry which is more generic and does not necessarily subsume the engineering
paradigm. Although it is questionable what impact it has had on actual software
development over the last more than 40 years, the field's future looks bright according to
Money Magazine and Salary.com who rated "software engineering" as the best job in
America in 2006.