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FIELDS OF EDUCATION,
CAREER OPTIONS AND PROSPECTUS
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Software Engineering: Overview
Software engineering is a disciplined approach to software development that
includes negotiating and documenting the software's requirements, following
fundamental design principles, analyzing design alternatives, and evaluating
whether the final product meets its requirements. Such evaluation not only
checks that a product functions correctly, but also determines that it is
safe, reliable, maintainable, and economical to produce and to operate.
Software engineering applies engineering principles and know best practices to
manage the challenges of developing software intensive systems and
productions. Like other fields of engineering, software engineering is a
hybrid of computer science, process-oriented engineering and management
principles.
A software engineer's work is not entirely technical. Software engineering
projects tend to involve large numbers of people. So software engineers must
be able to work well in teams. They may also have to interact with specialists
from other disciplines, who may have varied levels of software expertise. This
work calls for strong communication, business, and reasoning skills.
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