The profession of IT: Is software engineering engineering?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 24-26

  Denning, Peter J ^a   Riehle, Richard D ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE PROCESS; ALLOWABLE STRESS; DEPENDENT FUNCTIONS; DESIGN METRICS; FAILURE PROBABILITIES; LOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PLATFORM INDEPENDENCES; PLATFORM INTERFACES; PROCESS MANAGEMENTS; PROCESS MODELS; PROGRAM VERIFICATIONS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FITS AND TOLERANCES; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SPECIFICATIONS; STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING;

MODELS;

EID: 61849116693     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1467247.1467257     Document Type: Review

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