Structured programming: a minor part of software engineering

Authors:
David Lorge Parnas
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Software Quality Research Laboratory, College of Electronics and Informatics, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Venue:
Information Processing Letters - Special issue: Contribution to computing science
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Software Engineering is discussed as a branch of Engineering specialising in software intensive products. The process of developing good software is discussed and it is argued that writing programs, though obviously an essential step in the process, is only a small part of Software Engineering.