As software’s importance has grown, the software community has continually attempted to develop technologies that will make it easier, faster, and less expensive to to build and support high-quality computer programs.

Because of the complexity of the multitude of domains in both how and where software is developed, the odds of finding a unifying method is slim. Some of the domains of software can be found on pg 7, 1.1.2.

  • System Software
  • Application Software
  • Engineering/Scientific
  • Embedded
  • Product-line
  • Web Based
  • Mobile Apps (I split these apart)
  • AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  • Machine Learning – not listed and different than AI

IEEE Definition of Software Engineering: The application of systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software; that is the application of engineering to software.

Discuss: What are some challenges you see to this process?

An Intro to Software Engineering was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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