OBJECTIVES
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CHAPTER
3
Engineering of
Software
nî
Understand the rationale behind the need to establish a discipline in soft-
ware engineering.
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Analyze the main causes of software project failures.
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Give an example of software product failures.
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Understand the term software engineering as it was introduced at the 1968
NATO conference.
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Define the concepts of software engineering and of professionalism.
nî
Review the software engineering code of ethics.
nî
Discuss the sets of principles and foundations of software engineering put
forward by Alan Davis, Walker Royce, and Anthony Wasserman.
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