Outline of software engineering

For a more comprehensive list, see the List of software engineering topics.

Software Engineering (SE) is the design, development, and documentation of software by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains, interface design, digital asset management and other fields.

The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to software engineering:

Essence of software engineering

Main article: Software engineering

See also: Software development process

Methodologies of software engineering

• Flowcharting
• Structured programming since 1969
• Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM)
• Information Engineering (IE/IEM)
• Top-down programming
• Jackson Structured Programming
• Dynamic Systems Development Method
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Enterprise Unified Process (EUP)
• Agile Unified Process (AUP)
• Extreme Programming since 1999
• Scrum (development)
• Virtual finite state machine (VFSM) since 1990s
• Praxis
• Constructionist design methodology (CDM)

History of software engineering

Main article: History of software engineering

Basic software engineering concepts

• Ilities

Prominent figures in software engineering

• Edsger Dijkstra
• Brian Kernighan (inventor of C and Unix)
• Bill Joy (inventor of vi)
• Anders Hejlsberg (developer of Turbo Pascal)
• John Von Neumann (originator of the operating system concept)
• John Backus (inventor of Fortran)
• Bjarne Stroustrup (developer of C++)
• Alan Kay (pioneering work on object-oriented programming: Originator of Smalltalk)
• James Gosling (developer of Oak)
• Alan Cooper (developer of Visual Basic)
• Tony Williams (co-inventor of COM - interesting interview)

Software engineering lists

Main article: List of software engineering topics

See also

• List of software engineering topics