List of software engineering topics
This list complements the software engineering article, giving more details and examples. For an alphabetical listing of topics, please see List of software engineering topics (alphabetical). Skilled software engineers use technologies and practices from a variety of fields to improve their productivity in creating software and to improve the quality of the delivered product. Many technologies and practices are (mostly) confined to software engineering, though many of these are shared with computer science. A platform combines computer hardware and an operating system. For example, consumer software emphasizes low cost, medical software emphasizes high quality, and Internet commerce software emphasizes rapid development. Software has played a role in many high-profile disasters. Development models: Agile • Iterative model • RUP • Scrum • Spiral model • Waterfall model • XP • V-Model Other models: Automotive SPICE • CMMI • Data model • Function model • Information model • Metamodeling • Object model • Systems model • View model .Software engineers rarely make all of these deliverables themselves. These applications produce value for users, and sometimes produce disasters. Software engineers build software (applications, operating systems, system software) that people use. Applications influence software engineering by pressuring developers to solve problems in new ways.
As platforms grow more powerful and less costly, applications and tools grow more widely available. Skilled software engineers know a lot of computer science including what is possible and impossible, and what is easy and hard for software. Discrete mathematics is a key foundation of software engineering. Other Deliverables must be developed for many SE projects. They usually cooperate with the writers, trainers, installers, marketers, technical support people, and others who make many of these deliverables. Many people made important contributions to SE technologies, practices, or applications. See also See also: Software engineers affect society by creating applications.
