software engineering en · NOUN
Etymology
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 […]”.
Meanings
- (uncountable) The subfield of engineering concerned with applying a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.
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Translations (22)
tr yazılım mühendisliği (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · kmr endezyariya nivîsbariyê (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · fi ohjelmistotuotanto (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · ro ingineria programării (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · cmn 軟件工程 /软件工程 (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · fr génie logiciel (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · it ingegneria del software (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · is hugbúnaðarverkfræði (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · ro inginerie software (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · pt engenharia de software (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · el μηχανική λογισμικού (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · id rekayasa perangkat lunak (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · ja ソフトウェア工学 (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · el τεχνολογία λογισμικού (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · ko 소프트웨어 공학 (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · de Softwaretechnik (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · th วิศวกรรมซอฟต์แวร์ (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · cs softwarové inženýrství (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · ms kejuruteraan perisian (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · pl inżynieria oprogramowania (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · hu szoftvertechnológia (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software) · ga innealtóireacht bogearraí (subfield of engineering concerned with the development, operation, and maintenance of software)
wikipedia: Association for Computing Machinery · wikipedia: Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) · wikipedia: Anthony Oettinger · wikipedia: Computers and Automation · wikipedia: Oxford English Dictionary