From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bf72ca9e8a6b3cf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "M." Subject: Engineering & Software Engineering Date: 1999/11/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 545746709 References: <1e0rgtb.6j187t1hibcsaN@[209.132.126.64]> <7vv26t$tju$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <804plo$dvs$1@nntp5.atl.mindspring.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tds.net (TDS.NET help Desk 1-888-815-5992) X-Trace: ratbert.tds.net 942027500 207.1.20.136 (Sun, 07 Nov 1999 20:18:20 CST) Organization: TDS.NET Internet Services www.tds.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 20:18:20 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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.