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The subfield of engineering concerned with applying a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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First attested in 1965 in service listings (in “systems software engineering”), partly popularized by American computer scientists Anthony Oettinger and Margaret Hamilton later in the decade. In a 1966 letter to the members of the Association for Computing Machinery, listed by the Oxford English Dictionary as the term’s first attestation, Oettinger wrote, “We must recognize ourselves [...] as members of an engineering profession, be it hardware engineering or software engineering [...]”.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
軟件工程 /软件工程
(ruǎnjiàn gōngchéng)
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Czech:
softwarové inženýrství
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Finnish:
ohjelmistotuotanto
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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French:
génie logiciel
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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German:
Softwaretechnik
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Greek:
μηχανική λογισμικού
(michanikí logismikoú)
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Greek:
τεχνολογία λογισμικού
(technología logismikoú)
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Hungarian:
szoftvertechnológia
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Icelandic:
hugbúnaðarverkfræði
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Indonesian:
rekayasa perangkat lunak
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Irish:
innealtóireacht bogearraí
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Italian:
ingegneria del software
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Japanese:
ソフトウェア工学
(sofutouea kougaku)
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Korean:
소프트웨어 공학
(sopeuteuweeo gonghak)
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Northern Kurdish:
endezyariya nivîsbariyê
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Malay:
kejuruteraan perisian
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Polish:
inżynieria oprogramowania
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Portuguese:
engenharia de software
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Romanian:
inginerie software
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Romanian:
ingineria programării
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Thai:
วิศวกรรมซอฟต์แวร์
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
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Turkish:
yazılım mühendisliği
— subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software
