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Software Engineering: A Profession in Waiting

Journal article

Software Engineering: A Profession in Waiting

Abstract

Ongoing efforts to make software development an engineering discipline will fail until we have legislation requiring that creators of certain types of software be licensed, establishing a licensing authority, and detailing the capabilities that a licensed developer must possess.

Authors

Parnas DL

Journal

Computer, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 62–64

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publication Date

May 1, 2021

DOI

10.1109/mc.2021.3057685

ISSN

0018-9162

Associated Experts

David Parnas

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Engineering

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Fields of Research (FoR)

46 Information and computing sciences 4612 Software Engineering

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