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What Is Software Engineering?

Software Engineering 2015-08-12 v2

Abstract

A later translation (2015) of the article in Russian published in 1990. The article proposes an approach to defining a set of basic notions for subject area of software engineering discipline. The set of notions is intended to serve as a basis for detection and correction of some widespread conceptual mistakes in the efforts aimed at improving the quality and work productivity in creation and operation of software.

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@article{arxiv.1508.02031,
  title  = {What Is Software Engineering?},
  author = {Fedor Dzerzhinskiy and Leonid D. Raykov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02031},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, In English

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