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From: mcgregor@hemlock.Atherton.COM (Scott McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: What is Software Engineering ???
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Date: 9 Apr 91 18:34:34 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.114709.7695@cc.curtin.edu.au>,
sschnellm@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:

>   What is Software Engineering ???

>   Is it 

>         1. Management of People,
>         2. Management of Software,
>         3. Management of Hardware,
>         4. Management of Specifications.

Is there any reason to believe that the above define Software Management
rather than software engineering?  Or is the implication that Software
Engineering is somehow a subdiscipline of Industrial Engineering?

Wouldn't a more correct description of software engineering be something
like the discipline applying scientific methods and mathematical models
to the domain of software construction by analog to say civil engineering or
electrical engineering?

Scott McGregor