Software Engineering: An Advanced Course (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
F.L. Bauer | Springer | Pages: 545 | 1975 | ISBN: 3540071687 | PDF | 24 MB
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.