From: "M." <me@home.xx>
Subject: Engineering & Software Engineering
Date: 1999/11/08
Date: 1999-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MpqV3.79$4D5.48229@ratbert.tds.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 804plo$dvs$1@nntp5.atl.mindspring.net
Richard D Riehle wrote in message
>Software engineering is now where Industrial Engineering used to be.
>Most classical engineering, including chemical engineering, are based
>on the measurable forces of physics. Software practice, in
>general, is not constrained by those forces. Every engineering practice
>includes some kind of design metrics. Software practice may proceed
>oblivious to any notion of design metrics.
I'm in trouble then, because I'm an engineering intern and still oblivous to
"design metrics". Is there another term for the concept? Is a data sheet a
set of design metrics?
>We are
>moving in the direction of tools and languages that can lead to the
>codification of engineering standards. Some organizations are trying
>to take an engineering approach to the development of software.
A few college CS departments appear to be making progress too.
(Unfortunately, I can't say my alma mater was one of them.)
M.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-04 0:00 Software Engineering in Florida Charles H. Sampson
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-08 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-08 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-08 0:00 ` M. [this message]
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Engineering & Software Engineering Richard D Riehle
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Software Engineering in Florida Ron Skoog
1999-11-08 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Ron Skoog
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Ron Skoog
1999-11-09 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-10 0:00 ` M.
1999-11-10 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-05 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-11-06 0:00 ` M.
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1999-11-09 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Engineering Liability (was Re: Software Engineering in Florida) Robert I. Eachus
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