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"Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection." In computer programming, indirection is the act of manipulating a value through its address. ...
(Attributed to David Wheeler, chief programmer for the EDSAC project in the early 1950s.)
Softwareengineering (SE) is the profession of people who create and maintain software systems by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains and other fields.
Softwareengineering is "(1) the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, that is, the application of engineering to software," and "(2) the study of approaches as in (1)." – IEEE Standard 610.12
Experimental softwareengineering is a branch of softwareengineering interested in devising experiments on software, in collecting data from these experiments, and in devising laws and theories from this data.
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